Skip to main content

The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog

Friday, February 29, 2008

voyaging through the blogosphere-22

Here is a blog for a cause,The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog
is a huge blog,and as the name suggests its all about the Tsunami and earthquakes that rocked south east Asia a few years ago,and still incidents are reported about these calamities happening again.
Lets see what rough data i could compile for this blog :-
Blog Title - The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog
Blog Url - http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com
Blog Authors -
Constantin Basturea,zigzackly,Andy Carvin,Jabberwock,Kartik,Hush*,Krishna
saltandsaffron
The Wizard of Odd
vimal
Anand
scribbleamus
Morquendi
santos.
ange Embuldeniya
Mahesh Murthy
Tony Piper
someone else
Sunil Malhotra , rocksalad
Megha
ramananda sengupta
Daryl
chanakya@vichaar.org
neha vish
Hena
nandini chopra
wonder
Annie
Vijaya
Ajay
samit
Fadereu
Vishal
BoshTang
prema
sunilrnair
Bala
Pim
mekin
Sridhar Mahadevan
Nimbus
charmini
hangwu,Ram Dhan Yadav,Atheistbishop,Astro,Lastnode,sanjana,Dina Mehta,Beth
am sorry if i missed anyone,there are around 50 authors i guess.[Told you,this blog is a huge and a great effort]
Genre - Social
Created-26th decemebr,2004
Read many blogs,reviewed few of them,liked many,but man this was great in every sense of the word.this blog should be termed as a movement.Kudos to the people who started it and maintained it so very well.Reading it was like i have immersed myself into a huge information bank about everything and anything i want to know about tsunami,the news,the relief operations.the organizations working for the cause.
The large group of authors ensures that we have opinions and views of people from all parts of the world.Also look at the features,the amount of effort that has been done to ensure that this blog doesnt remain a mere blog but a movement of a large scale.So you have a feature which translates the text in 8 different languages of your choice.Then there are special email addresses to contact the people,if anyone wants to particiapte in the blog as a volunteer or translator etc.
Not to forget the very useful list of resource links.
3 posts i definately will recomnd the readers would be :-
1. PM' relief fund
2. A first person account of his volunteer efforts in sri lanka
3. Solomon Islands : six dead from tsunami

So a great blog and i think we should have more of such blogs for a social awakening to happen.Do chek it out.

Next on the voyager series coming all the way from Pakistan is the official blog of zeest's band.
Till then keep commenting and keep blogging.

happy Blogginggg!!!

4 comments:

Sahefa said...

Thnx 4 stoppin by ma blog. ur blog iz also a wonderful blog wid a gr8 way of writin.

Tshhar Mangal said...

Thanku for your kind words sahefa

Keep visiting this blog

God Bless you

Sahefa said...

By the way i have written a new post do read and comment in :-)

Tshhar Mangal said...

sure :-)

Comments

Also read

Does India need communal parties?

I think, it was Tan's post on this blog itself, Republic Day Event, where this question was raised. My answer. YES. we need communal parties even in Independent, Secular India. Now let me take you, back to events before 1947. When India was a colony of the British Empire. The congress party, in its attempt to gain momentum for the independence movement, heavily used Hinduism, an example of which is the famous Ganesh Utsav held in Mumbai every year. Who complains? No one. But at that time, due to various policies of the congress, Muslims started feeling alienated. Jinnah, in these times, got stubborn over the need of Pakistan and he did find a lot of supporters. Congress, up till late 1940's never got bothered by it. And why should we? Who complains? No one. But there were repercussions. The way people were butchered and slaughtered during that brief time when India got partitioned, was even worse than a civil war scenario. All in the name of religion. And there indeed was cr...

Adopt what is right.....

I see that many people of my age group adopt certain western cultures. School students and college goers are often seen buying friendship bands and valentine cards. I feel its not right. You may think I am traditional and don't keep up to date views. But if you think a little maturely you will find out its not modern to wear friendship bands. Its rather pure pride. Now as I am talking about western culture I should tell you that I'm not against it in fact I find some of the western values very much followable like dignity of work, civic sense, accountability etc. We have to maturely decide what to adopt from the westerners and what not to adopt. Why should we go after them when we have a culture of such great versatility? -Priya Joyce

7 Wild healing practices That Healed Me More Than Coaching Ever Did: What If Getting Better Means Getting a Little Wild?

What if healing does not always begin with another question, another worksheet or another carefully worded goal? Wild healing practices invite emotion into the body through movement, sensation, sound, memory and ritual. This first-person journey explores seven unconventional practices that helped me notice what conversation alone could not, while keeping therapy, safety and genuine trauma care firmly in view. Have you ever spent so much time trying to improve yourself that you began to suspect that self-improvement had quietly become another job? I know the feeling. There was a period in my life when I could discuss my emotional patterns with impressive confidence, identify my triggers before breakfast and explain the origin of almost every uncomfortable reaction with the solemn satisfaction of a man who had finally discovered the instruction manual for himself. I was learning, reflecting, journalling, setting intentions and having sensible conversations about growth. On paper, I was d...