Blog Quake Day
Desipundit sends out a call to help victims of the October 8 earthquake that ripped apart Northern India and pakistan. There are plans to deem 26 October, 2005 as Blog Quake Day and to direct help and relief to places that need them most.
Firstly, there are two blogs that do fantastic work is dispersing information and relief. Check them out
There’s a Wiki too, for quick updates and news – Pakistan Earthquake Wiki
And as always, there’s technorati tag for the current issue – Blog Quake Day
The Prime Minister’s (Indian) National Relief Fund is a good place to start, they also have an appeal going out to all of us on the net.
As Ash says at Desipundit, let’s all use the power of Blogs to do good.
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October 24th, 2005 at 10:31 pm
[...] Blog Quake Day Participants: Ash, Patrix, Kush Tandon, Sepoy, Mayank, Amit Varma, Chetan, Chenthil, Pankaj, Jagan Mohan, Selective Amnesia [...]
October 25th, 2005 at 8:31 pm
Nice to hear about blogquake. Good to see blogs being used for some issue and purpose instead of random musings. It should be used for both
October 26th, 2005 at 1:01 am
Blog Quake Day
25000 dead in Pakistan and about 2000 in India. Thousands of others have lost their homes, possessions and family. Children have been orphaned and the old and hapless deserted. The disaster caused by the Earthquake that struck Pakistan and parts of I…