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Another Use For Blogs

Posted By: 'Okie' | 5:45 am — 7/5/2006 | Comments Off See comments below:

Online emotional support groups — from the AP:

Bloodied and bewildered strangers led each other from the wreckage of the London bombings last July 7. A year later, many of them have forged close bonds – sharing their experiences in a network of blogs.

Dozens of the 700 injured in the train and bus blasts have recounted their stories online and are using them to press the British government for a full public inquiry.

Advertising executive Rachel North, 35, has become a reluctant figurehead, drawing 150,000 readers to her online journal, which described the horror of the blast on a Piccadilly line carriage that killed 25 passengers.

The story goes on to describe how she was sitting only 6 feet away from the suicide bomber when the blast went off, and she was basically unhurt, while others were maimed or killed. I don’t have the life experiences to comprehend what she and the others are trying to cope with — just good to know that they are finding some comfort and healing by blogging, meeting and talking it all out. No mention of any of them and their religion, although I’m not sure the AP would mention that, come to think of it . . . (db)

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