As the Russian invasion of Georgia proceeds, and hackers shut down most of the country's officials web sites, Zdnet notes that Georgian government officials have created an alternative propaganda and information arm by using Blogspot, Google's blog software. As you can see by clicking here and here, web sites for both the Georgian government and President Mikhail Saakashvili are down, at least intermittently. But the Georgian government has set up at least two emergency sites here and here, where they are posting updates on the conflict and publishing photographs of mutilated and dead Georgian civilians. Wired quotes Navy veteran and technology consultant Jim Stogdill musing that Georgia must have decided that Google's superior hacking defenses make it a better choice to get their side of the conflict out to the Western world. (In fact, Wired has some remarkable reporting on how the Internet is being used in the present conflict.)
Meanwhile, Valleywag notices Google News initially reported that the Russian army has invaded the Peach State...
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