How cool would it be to take part in an event against one of the folks from American Gladiators? Some of our troops in Iraq got that chance.

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Photos: Rosario Dawson fires a M11 pistol at the firing range at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Ms. Dawson was at the base researching her role as a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations in the movie “Eagle Eye”.

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Hurricane Gustav was far less a threat than many expected, this past week. It presented the new media, Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0, with the opportunity to strut their stuff. Community building, networking, two-way communication, citizen journalism and more were on display.

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Great story about a Fox News cameraman named Chris Jackson. His Marine unit was hit by and IED. He was injured but went back into the burning Humvee to help rescue a Marine. Video at the link, too.

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Now, before you youngins start mocking me, remember that I grew up in rural New York before cable TV. The CBS station in Buffalo was the easiest and clearest we could pull in with our down-in-the-valley rooftop antenna.

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Social media guru Peter Shankman has an innovative idea up, called Help a Reporter. The premise is simple. Build a network of people on-line who know something. Have writers and reporters submit their information needs to the site. Twice a day, broadcast the current list of needs with contact info to the membership.

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The old media is beginning to be a day late and a dollar short. They don’t need to be but that’s the way they are applying their business model. I can see up to the minute coverage of many stories on line at no cost. What does the old media have to offer?

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Fire broke out at Universal Studios in Los Angeles about 7:45 a.m. this morning, in the same area as a 1990 fire. That fire cost the studio about $50 million in damages.

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CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier visits with Cpl. Izzy Flores, combat medic with 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, during training May 5 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin.

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The Iraqi government has been moving troops south since late summer, which did not go unnoticed by our leadership. There are American advisors at all levels of the military, from the Ministry of Defense on down. To suggest that the United States was not aware that this operation was going forward is nonsense. Dozens of Americans had to have had been aware.

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