Thursday, July 14, 2005
Blogging bombing
It's been not quite the usual week in the blogosphere, with close to home terrorism focussing the mind on issues outside HCI and blogging and a technical life - more emphasis on the central tenats of life, death, uncertainty and attitudes.
But the blogosphere has not been silent on the issue, and after the 2 minutes silence today, it seems appropriate to look at the way that people have adapted to the recent events. The BBC has run a decent story on how bloggers have responded to the terrorists. There is also a meta-story here, in that blogs have become the voice of the nation (for some at least), responding with more authority, more wit, and more hard-hitting than any politician can. Blogs are now used as news sources by major organisations, often being the first location of first-person reports on things, and updated as regularly as the Reuters or PA newswire - maybe without quite the same level of veracity, but often with more..... Consider the response on We're not afraid.com which uses the power of the internet to provide an ever-increasing archive of photos of people passing on their individual message to the terrorists.
Our thoughts are with all those killed and injured, particularly in London, but also around the world, in such terrorist attacks. But our attitudes are also closely allied to those collated in Uncle Steve's journal - many humourous.....
I quote:
It's been not quite the usual week in the blogosphere, with close to home terrorism focussing the mind on issues outside HCI and blogging and a technical life - more emphasis on the central tenats of life, death, uncertainty and attitudes.
But the blogosphere has not been silent on the issue, and after the 2 minutes silence today, it seems appropriate to look at the way that people have adapted to the recent events. The BBC has run a decent story on how bloggers have responded to the terrorists. There is also a meta-story here, in that blogs have become the voice of the nation (for some at least), responding with more authority, more wit, and more hard-hitting than any politician can. Blogs are now used as news sources by major organisations, often being the first location of first-person reports on things, and updated as regularly as the Reuters or PA newswire - maybe without quite the same level of veracity, but often with more..... Consider the response on We're not afraid.com which uses the power of the internet to provide an ever-increasing archive of photos of people passing on their individual message to the terrorists.
Our thoughts are with all those killed and injured, particularly in London, but also around the world, in such terrorist attacks. But our attitudes are also closely allied to those collated in Uncle Steve's journal - many humourous.....
I quote:
"The BBC paused news coverage to show *Eastenders*. That'd be the nationwide fear, terror and panic, then."
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