A few things worthy of your attention that may have slipped by:

• Read Dan’s comment on my what is part two of apparently (hopefully) three of making the National Defense Authorization Act of 2009 about public diplomacy. 

• Read Bud’s comment on the endemic vacancy of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, the troubles with BBG, and general absence of prioritization of information affairs.
• Read Whose face to the world? by Steve Barnes in the International Herald Tribune. Related, see Marc Lynch’s post.
• Read Daniel Kimmage at the ICSR by Tim Stevens at Complex Terrain Laboratory.
  

  In Kimmage’s analysis, jihadist media have developed media products with consistent and systematic branding, using virtual media production and distribution entities (MPDEs) to link a plethora of groups under the global jihadist umbrella. This strategy, mirroring conventional media structures, imparts a degree of legitimacy and credibility to jihadist narratives, as well as facilitating control over the ideological content of the ‘message’.

• From DipNote, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke at Google last week.  See related post from Feb ’06. 

• The guys behind the Defense Department’s Blogger Roundtable, namely The Guy Jack Holt, launched a blog: DoD Live.  As J. writes, they’ve been up for months, but just recently Jack’s been putting out the word.  Does anybody else find it interesting that the government is relying on Blogger for official government communication?  VOA News also uses Blogger for its official blog.  I know Jack’s waiting on an internally managed system, but still…

• Read John Nagl and Charles Dunlap at Small Wars Journal: America’s Greatest Weapon. 

• Via KAL, CNN International is monetizing eyeballs.