Wired reports that blogs can, indeed, be used for good or evil. A 2006 Joint Special Operations University report recommended that the Department of Defense hire (sshhh!) secret bloggers to trash talk critics and support public relations efforts.

Amusingly, the report notes that potential creators and maintainers of such blogs may require “cultural and linguistic training,” and much less amusingly, predicts that “If a military blog offers valuable information that is not available from other sources, it could rise in rank fairly rapidly.”

What should the future Word of the Year term for faux bloggers be? Does a word for them already exist?