[Reader-list] a tsunami blog

[Nishant Shah]

Blogs have changed the way we communicate and represent things.
Increasingly blogs have also come to get an 'authority' of their own
because they do not belong to any institutions and also because the
bloggers do not have to subscribe to any particular "ideologies of
belonging."

however, even as one celebrates the freedom and empowerment of blogs,
one maybe also needs to look at the visibility that the blogs get. As
non commercial ventures, their ranking within search engines is low.
With the increasing number of bloggers, Blogs on different sites
{blogspot, livejournal, rediff., etc} blogs are also quickly turning
into a kind of junkyard archive that seems to be the inevitable for
any genre on the cyberspace.

Blogs are, however, precious. They are first hand accounts of- not
just the native informants- people who don't only experience and event
but also analyse it and hence give a better perspective on things.
Maybe better archiving facilities, search engines made exclusively for
blogs, new ranking patterns and trust points to blogs can indeed make
them the powerful tool they have the poetential of becoming.

The tsunami blog has many replicas already...the Bangalore community
on livejournal also has people making posts about their own efforts at
providing aid to the victims.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/bangalore/163954.html

There should be some way of collecting a comprehensive database of all
these blogs and help them talk and converge with each other because a
lot of them are actually wasting valuable energy in replicating
groudwork and necessary formalities.

Just passing thoughts on the matter...

Nishant


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:37:01 +0530, Anand Vivek Taneja
<radiofreealtair at gmail.com> wrote:
> there is website up to help those affected by the tsunami in south and
> south east asia.
> 
> it seems like the ease with which blogger allows you to put up a
> website, has made it easier and quicker for people to co-ordinate
> relief and share information, with or without institutional aid.
> 
> perhaps a 'riot blog' could have made things slightly different?
> 
> please do visit -
> http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/
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