Defense Dept. Blocking MySpace, YouTube (Update)

May 14, 2007 By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts a blog on the Internet every now and then "to basically keep my friends and family up to date" back home.

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