1. Wounded Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley takes out gunman 12 hours ago   permalink

Wounded Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley takes out gunman
Www.nydailynews.com

The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood had been directing traffic moments before she confronted the gunman and pumped four bullets into him despite being shot herself.

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Blackfive / BLACKFIVE :   A warrior wades in

2. Post-Communist Postcards 4 hours ago   permalink

Post-Communist Postcards
Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten

Nicolae Ceausescu's "Palace of the People," now the Romanian parliament building, Bucharest Bucharest, Romania, in the rain Bucharest, Romania Old City, Bucharest, Romania Old City, Bucharest, Romania Transylvania, Romania Medieval clock tower, Sighisoara, Romania – birthplace of Vlad the Impaler Brashov, Romania Kiev, Ukraine Kiev, ...

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Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten
Home from the East   —  I'm home again from an absolutely fascinating tour of post-communist Eastern Europe and can start writing about it as soon as I get my interviews transcribed. After leaving Romania, I was supposed to visit Chernobyl and the apocalyptic ghost city of Pripyat outside Kiev, Ukraine, but the trip was cancelled at the last minute. The Chernobyl ...

3. Murdoch Reconsidering Paywalls? Delaying Implementation 5 hours ago   permalink

Mike Masnick / Techdirt

Is Rupert Murdoch flip-flopping on paywalls again? Way back when (i.e., two years ago) Murdoch was a big believer in the idea that news should be free online, and that he could more than make it up with other business models. But, then, earlier this year, he did a complete flip-flop , declaring that all his publications would put up paywalls, ...

4. Ft Hood: the view from Iraq 5 hours ago   permalink

Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette

From one of the many deployed soldiers with family at Ft Hood:I've been deployed to Iraq for the past four months, and I've figured out how to cope with the stress that comes from being thousands of miles away from my family. But I wasn't prepared for what happens when violence intrudes on my loved ones, who are supposed to be safe at home while ...

5. Gadget of the Month Club 7 hours ago   permalink

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine

Hey, Verizon (& Google & Apple & Dell & BestBuy….). I want to try the Droid but I am already in indentured servitude to AT&T for my iPhone (and have no particular desire to lose it). As much of a gadget geek as I am (I’m no Leo Laporte – my wife would’t let me [...]

6. I got a DROID 7 hours ago   permalink

I got a DROID
Www.scripting.com

I had to do it. Went down to the Verizon store in El Cerrito and put down $350 and bought the $99 per month unlimited texting plan. Took it home, fell in love. It really is beautiful. I'm an iPhone user who loves the esthetics of the iPhone. The DROID is different, but also very nice.

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7. A Hero's Salute 9 hours ago   permalink

A Hero's Salute
Blackfive / BLACKFIVE

I believe that this young man is a medic with someone's blood on his shirt. Words do not describe the pride I feel or the gratitude that we have such people in our military: A first responder to a lone gunman's attack at Fort Hood Nov. 5 renders honors at retreat after aiding his fellow soldiers. U.S. Army photo More photos of the incident below ...

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Blackfive / BLACKFIVE
A Hero's Salute Of the Troops, For The Troops....   —  I work with quite of few former infantrymen, and I get quite a bit of crap from them. Yesterday though, I only heard one thing from them as they watched the news coming from Fort Hood. Thank God for the Military Police Corps... There are going to be recognition of the heroes and inevitable recriminations from what happened at Fort Hood. The US ...

8. Tough love for media 8 hours ago   permalink

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine

Here in a bit more friendly video format is the keynote I gave to the Munich Media Days (in English) a week ago, which I linked to earlier. I decided to be blunt and tough and tell them I was worried about the protectionist talk I’ve been hearing from Germany and that they need to [...]

9. Jeff Jarvis: The Future of Journalism is an entrepreneurial, collaborative Process 8 hours ago   permalink

Jeff Jarvis: The Future of Journalism is an entrepreneurial, collaborative Process
Carta.info

Jeff Jarvis: Why Google is not the enemy in a link economy, why protecting the media’s old business model will not work, why the future of journalism is entrepreneurial, collaborative and about process.

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10. Twitter Incorporates Retweeting 9 hours ago   permalink

Twitter Incorporates Retweeting
Fmpub.net / John Battelle

Saw this greeting me whilst on Twitter.com today (gotta love WiFi on a plane): Nice to see Twitter rolling out so many new things, like Lists, which seems to be taking off (though I find the lack of a discovery interface vexing, for now). Retweeting is integrated in an elegant...

11. Taliban using Social Bookmarks 11 hours ago   permalink

Taliban using Social Bookmarks
Charles Cameron / Smart Mobs

The CIA Factbook estimates Afghan literacy above the age of 15 at 28.1% (43.1% of males, 12.6% of females)  — so it’s worth noting that the Taliban (Mullah Omar’s outfit, aka the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) is now using social bookmarking on its website: Note the little line of social bookmarking icons across the bottom [...

12. Pakistani clarity on the way forward in Afghanistan 19 hours ago   permalink

P.M. / Thomas P.M. Barnett :

ARTICLE: Don't Try to Arrest the Sea , by Major Mehar Omar Khan, Small Wars Journal , October 2, 2009 Really fine piece by a Pakistani officer. Most clear-headed reasoning I've yet read on the way forward in Afghanistan. My question would be: how close does McChrystal's plan come to fostering this desired change?

13. Combatant commanders can't afford a State screw-up 19 hours ago   permalink

P.M. / Thomas P.M. Barnett :

POST: The real State-Defense turf war begins , By Josh Rogin, The Cable , 11/03/2009 Predictable struggle: the Pentagon doesn't want the hassle and prefers "doing the right thing" by demilitarizing foreign aid and giving it back to incompetent State and headless USAID. But Combatant Commanders in the field resist this "noble" gesture. Why? They ...

14. Welcome Reid Hoffman to the VC Side of the Table 1 day ago   permalink

David Hornik / VentureBlog

First came the announcement earlier in the year that Marc Andreessen was joining the ranks of "capital" -- a welcomed defection from "labor." And now my friend Reid Hoffman has jumped into the fray as well, joining Greylock Partners in their new fund (although he is not quite abandoning "labor" -- for the time being he will continue on as ...