Thursday, July 7, 2005

London Bombing Blog Links

Hi...needless to say, most of the major blog outlets have significant coverage of the London terrorist bombings (BBC News link).

Here is a quick roundup of blog links, shared photos and other blog-related resources.

The Guardian Newspaper has a news blog;
it's a very good example of how a mainstream media organization can use
blogs to supplement and enhance its offerings.  The also link to Messages of Resolve and Eyewitness Accounts, for those looking for a more personal perspective of events.

Here is the Wikinews article -- a wiki is a group blog which anyone can contribute to; WikiNews is a take on group citizen journalism blogging.

The Londonist is a local London group blog (it's part of a network of local blogs, such as DCist, Gothamist, LAist, etc).

Here is the Flickr.com London Bomb photo pool.
There are lots of pics of TV screens and so forth, but there are some
photos taken from mobile phones from people evacuating the Underground.

Here is an example of a UK Moblog photo
-- it's a single pic, and I can't vouch for the quality of the rest of
the pics on that site (Moblog sites can be pretty dicey, especially
when it comes to porn pics, etc -- Flickr is probably the best bet for
moblog photos).

Here's another UK Blogs Aggregator.

Scalzi found this one; it's a LiveJournal bulletin board for London LiveJournalers to touch base and check in.

And here are some more links from some of the usual blog suspects:
In addition, here are some canned searches for "London Bombing" so you can find your own blog content:
Lastly for right now, I was looking through some AOL UK Journals -- they're largely reactions from folks watching events unfold on TV, just like us across the pond:
Thoughts and prayers to everyone affected by this.

Thanks -- Joe

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe you were oversimplifying for the sake of your audience, but a wiki is not like a group blog. They are fundamentally different in structure.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/

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Anonymous said...

http://journals.aol.com/myheartsaysso2/WhereTheHeartIs/entries/48

Just did a entry on terrorism in general with photo collage.. :)

Anonymous said...

As the U.S. Government would say, "unfortunate."

Anonymous said...

I just don't understand why there are so many inconsiderate humans in the world !....A good lesson to learn for all is something I tell my children all the time...Everyone's actions at any given moment affect something or someone else's life without us even knowing it...for example...Just because ignorant people wanted to get attention by bombing London, my children were affected all the way in California...They were prepared to take their yearly summer trip to their Grandpa's house by Amtrak train...well, of course,  the trip is now cancelled until other arraingements can be made....good example for my children , but heartbreaking lesson to learn...
Why can't we just all get along?!?
Please teach tolerance to all children now !!!

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Anonymous said...

its sad that we have for gotten about god word. and that we have let every one in the land of the free and other courtyes, and we just now have to lean this is god wold not mans world and ask god to help us and stop being so good and let JESUS PRETACK US IN PARYFOR OUR FAMILYS.       AND HOMES AND ASKGOD TO OPEN OUR EYES TO SEE OVER US AND KEEP EVERYONE OPEN FOR ANY THING THAT SEEMS DIFFERN THAT WE CAN ASK FOR HIGHERPOWER THAT IS GOD  THE HOILY ONE TO FOR GIVE US AND LETS START NOW TO GIVE LOVE AND KINDS TO ONE NATIOAN UNDER GOD. AND BLESS THE PEPOLE THAT LOST THER LIVES AND WE PRAY DAY AND NIGHT THAT WE CAN ASK GOD TO STOP THIS ACT OF NONE LIFE . WE SHALL BE BLESS IN ALL THE LAND .AMEN