The State Department has launched its own blog, Dipnote. I expect much spin and PR for Karen Hughes, and hopefully some helpful tips about seating arrangements and other etiquette issues. Since policy issues will not be discussed with any degree of seriousness (after all there is a press office to handle that) it’d be nice to see some juicy anecdotes from FSOs (that’s Foreign Service Officers).
David Milliband has apparently been blogging too. It all sounds like the cyber-equivalent of fixed smiles and forced chat at an office party with the boss pretending to be human.
http://blogs.fco.gov.uk/blogs/david_miliband/about_blog.aspx
Dipnote, a weird name, but it has a nice ring. I like the site design too. I think they should turn off commenting though, as it’ll inevitably be inundated by crazy ass people spamming about why they can’t get their Guatemalan babies.
It’s just crying out for a parallel spoof site called “dipshit,” you know.