Why Conservatives Should Be Using Twitter And 200 "People" You Should Be Following, All American Blogger.

Twitter is a great way to build online communities.  For example, when the Republicans staged a protest last summer and refused to leave for summer recess, Eric Odom and a few other Twitter users were sending updates using the hashtag “#dontgo.”  That hashtag allowed people to see the news relating to the dontgo movement as it was happening and morphed from a Twitter stream to an organization Michelle Malkin called “the new gathering place for conservative activism.”

Not playing around: Army to invest $50M in combat training games, Stars and Stripes.

In addition to the $50 million, the Army gaming unit has an undisclosed additional budget to purchase a state-of-the-art commercial video game system that will be fielded for training in February.