Just surfing around and encountered 2 first class blogs with minute-to-minute updates on the Iraqi crisis run by well known and respected Italian journalists.
Enzo G. Baldoni's Bloghdad. Baldoni is missing and possibly killed but the journalist's friends and colleagues are keeping it running. Great quote by Graham Green.
http://www.bloghdad.splinder.com/
Pino Scaccia (Italy's No. 1 foreign correspondent and tv commentator) runs La Torre di Babele.
http://www.pinoscaccia.rai.it/torre/
Both are examples of fine, professional, and brave journalism of the Digital Age which should shame our intimidated rabbits better known as embeds.