Grandiose Parlor

The “We Blog for Darfur” (WBD) project is receiving some attention from the mainstream media, the first stoplight comes from Mark Jones, the global community editor of Reuters, who wonders “if its wise to start a new blogging initiative or focus on existing ones.”

It’s encouraging (at least to me) to see Reuters writes about WBD after Grandiose Parlor/Global Voices‘ initial posts on the initiative. Reuters appears to be one mainstream media interested and good in building collaborations with citizen media initiatives if one can use its alliance with Global Voices as an example. I hope the organizers of the WBD project are aware of this, and can play their cards right. The success of initiatives like WBD is strongly dependent on the ability of the organizers to collaborate, and build, but not burn bridges.

After the not-so-pleasant comments made on this blog (I had to moderate some because of the foul language) by one the WBD organizers, and on the Mideast Youth Forum; one entry was particularly heavy with some choice words (now deleted), and a more recent comment where the writer refers to me as a “failed blogger” :): http://www.mideastyouth.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=257&view=next&sid=fe182494d6ed41f59f44a08eaf21f413, (Fri. Nov 24, 2006 2:42 pm). I can only hope that others in the WBD initiative have abundant peoples’ skills and good temperament to compensate for the deficiencies of their colleague.

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