State department has a blog team

Apparently the US State Department has a team of bloggers who get into discussions on boards and blogs around the world, taking an interesting alternative approach to the usual formal, high level diplomacy:

"...The State Department team members themselves said they thought they would be immediately flamed, or insulted and blocked from posting...."

This is pretty interesting, and yet another sign of how blogs are infiltrating all aspects of life. Read the whole article: "At State Dept. Blog Team Joins Debate", from the New York Times.