« Did you know: Family of Man | Main | links for 2006-11-22 »

Blogging and its influence: under-estimated?

Blogging was the hottest human-interest story of the Lebanon-Israel crisis of 2006. On 18 July, less than one week after the conflict began, I summarized the phenomenon in a post for my own blog, titled ‘The most blogged war?’ I didn’t realize then that the question mark was utterly superfluous. Not only was this the first time in history that residents of two countries at war were able to maintain an ongoing, uncensored conversation in real time, but it was also the first time ordinary citizens were able to provide grassroots reporting in real time. In the same post, I used the term ‘surreal’ to describe the experience of chatting with Charles as my country’s air force bombed his city.

Read the whole article

Technorati Tags: blogging, israel lebanon