Bra genomgång av tsunami-bloggar
Tidningen Searcher har gjort en bra sammanställning (precis som förra gången), 4 månader efter faktumet, om de många och olika sorters bloggar som växte fram efter flodvågskatastrofen i Sydostasien - "Tsunami Blogs Respond to Disaster":
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Though offering personal observations and reportage, as most do, these blogs have served other constructive purposes: sharing emergency response information; connecting people to missing victims; and sharing information about donation and volunteer opportunities.
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How are these blogs noticed? Without a readership, the blogs would become quickly ineffectual. One of the advantages of blogs is their interactive and referral nature. Most blogs will link to other blogs, usually of the same kind, and within the blogosphere (or the reader- and writership that congregate for and around blogs), this referral system acts as an effective attention-getting device.

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