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Dedicated blogs and resources

Regional

• [1] (http://www.alertearth.org) Alert Earth! - A grassroots non-proft effort for monitoring disasters like tsunamis/quakes/hurricanes and alerting people.
• [2] (http://www.photoduck.com/pollyfodder) Massive Tsunami photo and news archive updated DAILY for duration of relief efforts.
• Project Kasih (http://www.kasih.org/) - Blog platform for Volunteers to post first hand account of problems faced by victims
• TsunamiAsie.com (http://www.tsunamiasie.com/) The most complete blog in french about the tsunami: news, resources, help, ONG, victims
• ProPoor Tsunami Blog (http://www.bethechange.org/) Blog pooling together resources, volunteers, ideas, and needs for Tsunami relief.
• Yahoo Group for TSUNAMI affected victims (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tsunami_bond/) - The Aftermath of TSUNAMI- exchange feelings, provide relief, help, get info. about missing persons, relief giving organisation, all about the Tsunami and to cope out from it...
• Tsunami Help (http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/)- The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami blog: News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts.
• Tsunami-Info.org (http://www.tsunami-info.org) News feed and tsunami blog aggregator managed by Andy Carvin.
• Malaysia & Thailand Tsunami Disaster HELP (http://tsunamipenang.blogspot.com/) - Aid, donation information and updates for tsunami victims in Malaysia and Thailand
• World Health Organization Situation Reports (http://www.who.int/hac/crises/international/asia_tsunami/en/)
• Center for International Disaster Information (http://www.cidi.org/) - a USAID-funded clearinghouse for disaster information
• A website forum for details and photos of missing friends and relatives (http://s6.invisionfree.com/quake/)
• Swedish Wiki Disaster Information (http://www.disa.nu/) - "Information om katastrofen i Sydostasien" (collected information from Sweden in Swedish)
• Tsunami Victims Website (http://www.tsunamivictims.org/)
• Googlenews search result (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=tsunami+asia)
• Tsunami Help Relief (http://tsunamihelprelief.blogspot.com/) - Tsunami Help Relief: Ideas for how to help those affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
• How To Help (http://howtohelp.blogspot.com/)- Help Tsunami Victims Blog: Compilation of various Relief and Aid Organizations country wise with links to Online donations pages
• Missing Americans (http://tsunamimissingamericans.blogspot.com/) - Missing Americans: Missing and Found Lists.
• Volunteer Ministers (http://www.volunteerministers.org/) - Scientology Volunteer Ministers working on Tsunami relief efforts across Southeast Asia. On the ground reports.
• Worldwide Graduate Students (http://www.quickhelpworld.com/)

India

• Asha's Tsunami R&R (http://ashatsunamirelief.blogspot.com/) - This page contains all onsite Asha volunteer updates, Asha project updates, as well as Asha press releases.

• Vibha's Tsunami R&R Efforts (http://vibhatsunamirelief.blogspot.com/) - This blog tracks the relief and rehabilitation efforts of Vibha, in the Tsunami affected areas of South India.

• ViDe's Tsunami R&R Efforts (http://indiatsunamirelief.blogspot.com/) - This blog tracks the relief and rehabilitation efforts of ViDe, in the Tsunami affected areas of India.

• The Lost World - A Poem by Vimal Vijayan

• David Albert and Aliyah Shanti - LAFTI Blog (http://shantinik.blogspot.com/) - The blog tracks the work of LAFTI - Land for the Tillers Freedom - that has been working in Nagai District for more than three decades, and is now building permanent housing for and with tsunami and flood victims.

Indonesia

• Indonesia HELP (http://indonesiahelp.blogspot.com/) - Aid, support, donation information and updates for earthquake and tsunami victims in Indonesia (Aceh & North Sumatera)
• Pusat Data Aceh (Aceh Data Center) (http://aceh.abangadek.com) This wiki-like site provides information on relief needs, tsunami victims' names, how the public can help, and a media (photo/video) gallery. It is open to contributions to update information. Site owners are based in Jakarta. (Link via Screenshots)
• The Aceh Media Center site (http://www.airputih.or.id) provides comprehensive information on relief needs, coordinating/contact information for logistics, public media channels in Indonesia, disaster aid agencies, and a missing persons billboard. Latest news are also posted by site representatives in the region. The site is available in Bahasa Indonesia and English.
• Project Kasih (http://www.kasih.org/) - Blog platform for Volunteers to post first hand account of problems faced by victims

Maldives

• http://tsunamimaldives.blogspot.com/ Tsunami maldives is a non profit free media news site run by volunteer reporters, writers and citizens from all over Maldives.
• Shockwaves in Maldives (http://shockwavesinmaldives.blogspot.com/) - Shockwaves in Maldives is a blog with photos and thoughts from Maldives and covers the way Maldives is coping with the suffering and devastation caused by the tsunami.

Sri Lanka

• Dealing with the Tsunami (http://lareef.blogspot.com/) - A blog that focuses on investigating how vulnerable people can be empowered to deal with environmental change and disasters.

• GeoLanka/RecoverLanka (http://149.166.110.235/geosrilanka/) - This website was developed to assist with relief and reconstruction operations. It provides topical information about theTsunami disaster, Sri Lanka, disaster management and health care, updates on the evolving situation on the ground, requests for assistance, offers of assistance, networking tools and information on organizations that are involved in relief particularly small community based organizations. It provides a GIS based interactive mapping tool that can help contextualize relief work spatially.

• Help Lanka Tsunami Blog (http://helplanka.blogspot.com/) - A blog to help mobilize Sri Lankans and friends of Sri Lankans in the US to help with relief efforts.

• HelpSL Blog (http://www.helpsl.org/blogs.htm/) - blogs maintained by a group of young Sri Lankans in the US including updates on efforts overseas. Includes links to other blogs.

• Hoi Polloi (http://hoipolloi.typepad.com/buzz/all_tsunami_coverage/index.html) - The personal weblog of Angelo Fernando; now a Sri Lanka Tsunami Relief Blog

• Karuna Trust (http://www.karunalanka.org) - Karuna Trust is collecting funds to bring relief to the victims of the tsunami at a time when a national disaster has been declared.

• Lacnet Tsunami Blog (http://sltsunami.blogspot.com/) - Blog maintained by Lacnet

• Life Of A Guy From Asia... - Individual Blog (http://brilliantx.journalspace.com) - This is a personal blog maintained by a Sri Lankan and it details the experience of special voluntary efforts taken to locate and rescue many tourists soon after the tsunami disaster.

• Mahangu.org (http://www.mahangu.org) - The personal weblog of freelance writer and journalist Mahangu Weerasinghe. Mahangu was among the first reporters to make it in to areas affected by the tsunami, and builds upon these experiences in his weblog, updated daily.

• RANATUNGA.COM Tsunami blog (http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jranatun/blog/) Tsunami relief projects done in California to benefit Sri Lanka.

• Relief for Sri Lanka (http://www.reliefforsrilanka.blogspot.com/) - The official website for tsunami relief programmes co-ordinated by the Rotary Club of Colombo Regency, R I District 3220 Sri Lanka

• Sanjiva Weerawarana's Blog (http://www.bloglines.com/blog/sanjiva) - IT guy helping organize free/open software to coordinate relief efforts in Sri Lanka

• Sarvodaya (http://sarvodaya.org) - This is the blog documenting the efforts of Sarvodaya, the largest development charity on the island, to organize a country-wide relief effort, based on their existing 50-year-old networks.

• Serving Sri Lanka (http://servesrilanka.blogspot.com/) - This blog contains news clippings and provides an avenue for the expression and collection of ideas on Post-Tsunami relief and reconstruction with a focus on grassroot development.

• Sri Lanka Outreach Team (http://srilankamissions.blogspot.com/) - A team of US Students & Young Adults who dropped everything and went to help in Sri Lanka. Updates, prayer requests, and ways to help, including giving and going.

• Two Weeks Off (http://www.twoweeksoff.com/) - Blog about a guy going from Tennessee to Sri Lanka to help with the reconstruction effort for 2 weeks in April.

• Tsunami Disaster Sri Lanka - Latest News (http://www.lankalibrary.com/news.htm) - LankaLibrary is a non profit educational site with a large collection of news and feature articles on Sri Lanka.

• Waves of Hope (http://wavesofhope.org/) - Waves of hope is a non profit free media news site run by volunteer reporters, writers and citizens from all over Sri Lanka.

• The government of sri lanka is proposing that no house, business or school should be built within 100 metres of the seashore. This means that many people who lost their houses and businesses in the Tsunami may also lose their land, chance of re-building, and their livelihood. Buldings that survived the Tsunami may be torn down by the government. Tourism will be damaged, and the rule is slowing down recovery as people do not know if, or where to re-build.

To register your support for these people, and fears for the area if the govt go ahead, please write a letter and copy it to: 1)Mr A Bandaranaike, Minister of Tourism, Ministry of Tourism, Galle Road, Col. 3 Sri Lanka 2)U. Nanayakkara, Ceylon Tourist Board, Galle Road, Col. 3, Sri Lanka 3)Wong Chalee, Campaign Director, Batey Public Relations Marketing Ltd, Level 8A Valiant Towers, 46/7 Nawam MAwatha, Col. 2 Sri Lanka. (e mail: Chailee.wong@bateypr.com.sg) 4)Chandrasena Wijesinghe, Minister of Fisheries, New Secretariat, Maligawatta, Col. 10 S.L. (e mail: cwijesinghe@fisheries.gov.lk)

Thailand

• Visitors and residents of PHUKET are posting messages on this board: http://www.p-h-u-k-e-t.com/forum/
• Malaysia & Thailand Tsunami Disaster HELP (http://tsunamipenang.blogspot.com/) - Aid, donation information and updates for tsunami victims in Malaysia and Thailand
• A young Canadian man who lost his girlfriend, Rubina Wong, returns to Thailand in search of Aid projects to support: http://rubinawong.blogspot.com
• Information on Thai mission and how you can help (http://liveinthespirit.blogspot.com/)*

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Journalist blogs

• BBC Reporters' log: Asia disaster (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4129521.stm)
• Tsunami-Blog by Wolfgang Harrer for German Television ZDF (http://tsunami-blog.zdf.de)
• Oznewz - Free web news to encourage tsunami relief/rebuilding supplies. (http://www.freewebs.com/oznewz)
• http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/
• India Uncut (http://indiauncut-tsunami.blogspot.com) - Indian journalist Amit Varma's coverage from Tamil Nadu, India
• Mahangu.org (http://www.mahangu.org) - The weblog of freelance writer and journalist Mahangu Weerasinghe.
• Media Network (http://http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/) - Radio Netherlands Media weblog with Andy Sennitt
• David Albert and Aliyah Shanti - LAFTI Blog (http://shantinik.blogspot.com/) - The blog tracks the work of LAFTI - Land for the Tillers Freedom - that has been working in Nagai District for more than three decades, and is now building permanent housing for and with tsunami and flood victims.

Personal blogs

• A young Canadian man who lost his girlfriend, Rubina Wong, returns to Thailand in search of Aid projects to support: http://rubinawong.blogspot.com
• Alert Earth! (http://www.alertearth.org) - Never again a disaster like the tsunami which killed over 300,000 people - many of whom could've been saved by alerting them!
• Two Weeks Off (http://www.twoweeksoff.com) - One man's journey from America to Sri Lanka to help with the reconstruction effort by joining an organized relief group.
• Beyond Wallacia (http://geoffreymg.blogspot.com) - Indonesia, Australia and South East Asia
• Asia Tsunami Watch (http://asiatsunamiwatch.blogspot.com) - A personal blog of Free Thinker with special updates and news about the tsunami and the Asian tsunami-hit regions.

• Life Of A Guy From Asia... - Individual Blog (http://brilliantx.journalspace.com) - This is a personal blog maintained by a Sri Lankan and it details the experience of special voluntary efforts taken to locate and rescue many tourists soon after the tsunami disaster.

• Mahangu.org (http://www.mahangu.org) - The personal weblog of Sri Lankan freelance writer and journalist Mahangu Weerasinghe.
• Information on Thai mission and how you can help (http://liveinthespirit.blogspot.com/)
• CASI (http://casi.mmic.net) - Blog from a volunteer in Banda Aceh for the CASI organization in Montreal (in French)
• Phi Phi Island Survivor's Video Blog (http://www.issuespotter.com/)
• Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth (http://www.andycarvin.com/) - Creator of Tsunami-Info.org (http://www.tsunami-info.org/) and director of the Digital Divide Network (http://www.digitaldivide.net/)
• Tsunami Misc Info (http://tsunamimiscinfo.blogspot.com) - About missing people, found people
• India Uncut (http://indiauncut-tsunami.blogspot.com) - Amit Varma's coverage from Tamil Nadu, India
• ceneus.blog (http://blog.ceneus.com) - Blogging a Disaster, Sri Lanka
• http://www.rupya.com - Covering from Chennai,Rupya
• Phuket Update (http://www.noels-isulong-seoph.com/blog/?page_id=24) - Post Tsunami Phuket
• WorldChanging (http://worldchanging.com/) - Bringing the disaster into focus.
• Conversations with Dina (http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/) - Tsunami Help Spokesperson and coordinator from Mumbai, India
• Kiruba Shankar (http://www.kiruba.com/) - Covering from Chennai, India
• Suman Kumar (http://www.sumankumar.com/)
• Boing Boing (http://boingboing.net/): General blog with coverage of tsunami.
• Command Post (http://www.command-post.org/nk/)
• Jeff Ooi in Malaysia (http://www.jeffooi.com/): Thinking Allowed, Thinking Aloud.
• BLOG.rajanr.com (http://blog.rajanr.com/)
• Sumankumar's yak pad (http://sumankumar.com/)
• Extra: Fred is in Jaffna (http://www.thiswayplease.com/extra.html), Sri Lanka.
• DesiMediaBitch (http://desimediabitch.blogspot.com/)
• Howard Rheingold's SmartMobs (http://www.smartmobs.com/)
• The Moderate Voice (http://themoderatevoice.typepad.com/blog/)
• Insomnia (http://www.livejournal.com/users/insomnia/525268.html)
• From Japan (http://radio.weblogs.com/0128043/)
• Evelyn Rodriguez (http://evelynrodriguez.typepad.com) In addition to first-hand accounts, tsunami survivor offers private blog for survivors, aid workers, and others affected by the trauma (or needing to teach coping skills) in handling acute stress disorder via integrative medicine methods following program outlined in book, Full Catastrophe Living. Please contact crossroadsdispatches -at- gmail -dot- com for more info.
• Caffeinated Carbon (http://randy.joshrcc.com)
• Weblog Venezolano (http://www.venezolano.web.ve/) - Spanish Coverage
• element115 (http://e115.blogspot.com/): News blog with tsunami coverage
• Tiago Doria Weblog (http://www.tiagodoria.blogspot.com/) - Covering from Brazil
• Gary Sauer-Thompson in Australia (http://www.sauer-thompson.com/) ongoing commentary
• Zoo station (http://wetware.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-relief-efforts.html): Everything from how to find missing persons to international and local aid agencies with comments and advice to help you evaluate the organizations
• Junk for Code (http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/) selected images
• The Third World View (http://rezwanul.blogspot.com/): News, links & views from Rezwan of Bangladesh, which escaped the tragedy miraculously.
• News links for affected locations (http://danger.mongabay.com/earthquake/2004/): News links for cities, towns, islands, and other areas in the affected region.
• Infoblog on aid for tsunami victims (http://www.my1000words.blogspot.com/) in South India
• Earth-Info.Net (http://www.earth-info.net/) Links to news organisations, NGO donation pages and latest news.

• Good News Blog (http://gdnews.blogspot.com/): Good News on Tsunami Relief Efforts
• Volunteer Ministers Blog (http://volunteerminister.blogspot.com/): News from the SE Asia disaster relief locations
• Tsunami Help (http://whyihelp.blogspot.com): Helping Others in Indonesia
• Relief Efforts (http://cookingstuff.blogspot.com/): India Disaster Relief
• Thai Tsunami Assistance (http://home.earthlink.net/~rekon10): Scientology Volunteer Ministers in Thailand

• learning living and managing (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=sarath/) - a personal perspectives of a Sri Lankan in USA and his thoughts on tsunami.

Blog lists and other blogs

A young Canadian man who lost his girlfriend, Rubina Wong, returns to Thailand in search of Aid projects to support: http://rubinawong.blogspot.com

• http://www.tsunamijournal.com
• http://blogs.vbcity.com
• Information on Thai mission and how you can help (http://liveinthespirit.blogspot.com/)
• Bloggers without Borders (http://www.b19s.org)
• Blogdigger search for 'tsunami' (http://www.blogdigger.com/search.jsp?q=tsunami)
• BlogPulse search for 'tsunami' (http://www.blogpulse.com/search?start_date=&end_date=&query=tsunami)
• BlogPulse Trend Search for Tsunami, Earthquake (http://tinyurl.com/5ku8a)
• BlogPulse Trend Search for Tsunami Relief Organizations (http://tinyurl.com/46gzt)
• BlogPulse Trend Search for Blog Coverage of Regions Hit by Tsunami / Earthquake (http://tinyurl.com/46m72)
• Dealing with the Tsunami (http://lareef.blogspot.com/) - A blog that focuses on investigating how vulnerable people can be empowered to deal with environmental change and disasters.
• Feedster 'tsunami' (http://www.feedster.com/search.php?q=tsunami&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sort=date)
• Feedster 'earthquake' (http://www.feedster.com/search.php?q=earthquake&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sort=date)
• Feedster 'destruction' (http://www.feedster.com/search.php?q=destruction&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sort=date)
• Feedster 'tidal wave' (http://www.feedster.com/search.php?q=tidal+wave&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sort=date)
• Serving Sri Lanka (http://servesrilanka.blogspot.com/)
• Tsunami Tragedy Blog -focusing on the politics of the disaster. (http://asiantsunami.blogspot.com/)
• Deutsch Österreich, Schweiz, Deutschland, Informationen, Links. (http://xidee.com/)
• World For All (http://WorldForAll.blogspot.com)
• Infoblog on aid for tsunami victims (http://my1000words.blogspot.com)
• post-Tsunami rehabilitation (http://consciouscitizens.blogspot.com/)
• Americans seeking Americans (http://tsunamimissingamericans.blogspot.com/)
• Tsunami Donation Blog (http://www.humanistleague.org/tsunamiblog.html)
• Daze and Days after Tsunami (http://tsunamisos.blogspot.com/The) - a report and appeal
• Tsunami News (http://www.missionandjustice.org/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=37) - Aggregated News Site with Tsunami News coverage relating mainly to the Aid efforts
• personal blog of Director of Ops and Coms, Aceh Aid at IDEP (Indonesian NGO) (http://spaces.msn.com/members/susijohnston/Blog/)
• Global Vigil for the Global Village - Global Vigil for the Global Village (http://www.GlobalVigil.TYO.ca)
• Public Homeless Blog (http://homeless.blog-city.com/) - Weblogs by homeless and those facing homelessness
• Scientology Volunteer Ministers (http://www.volunteerministers.org/eng/news/index.htm) - A blog that informs the public what our organization is doing in Indonesia.

• Tsunami Disasters (http://tsunamidisasters.blogspot.com/) - A blog that gives a detailed account on the disasters that have been caused due to Tsunami.

• http://www.alertearth.org a non-profit effort/website to monitor disasters and alert people. a grassroots effort to prevent the next tsunami/quake/anything from becoming so deadly.

• Dealing with the Tsunami (http://lareef.blogspot.com/) - A blog that focuses on investigating how vulnerable people can be empowered to deal with environmental change and disasters.

• GeoLanka/RecoverLanka (http://149.166.110.235/geosrilanka/) Web Resources for Post-Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction.

• Serving Sri Lanka Blog (http://servesrilanka.blogspot.com/) News clippings and information regarding post-tsunami relief and reconstruction with a focus on grassroot development.

• Servesrilanka.net (http://servesrilanka.net) Info portal on poverty alleviation and grassroot development in Sri Lanka.

• http://www.tsunami.eu.tt

other wikis

• flood-catastrophy-wiki (http://communitywiki.org/odd/FloodCatastrophyWiki/HomePage) - another wiki to help, collaborative and in no competition to the tsunamihelp-wiki. I'd recommend a WikiNode for both, maybe later a "node-wiki for emergency-wikis". MattisManzel 18:52, 6 Jan 2005 (CET)