Georgia: Blogging Comes of Age

If blogging truly came of age during the recent presidential election in Armenia, the military conflict with Russia appears to have done the same in Georgia. Following attacks on local Internet sites, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Georgia has even set its own blog up. There are also lists such as this one circulating via email in what is also fast becoming an information war.

http://georgieenfeu.blogspot.com
http://stoppt-russland.blogspot.com/
http://vocedallageorgia.blogspot.com/
http://tsxinvali.blogspot.com/
http://russiangeorgianwar.blogspot.com/
http://qartu.com/
http://stop-bombing.blogspot.com/
http://occupation.tspteam.com/
http://geoconflicts.wordpress.com/
http://realgeorgia.wordpress.com/
http://georgien.blogspot.com/
http://merienn.livejournal.com/
http://inna-kulishova.livejournal.com/
http://dianach.livejournal.com/

Of course, it’s also worth pointing out that Global Voices Online has it’s own special coverage page of what bloggers around the world are saying about the Russia-Georgia conflict. The coverage is also part of that by The New York Times and Reuters and was recently mentioned in a special report by CNN.

(CNN) — People in Georgia, as in other crisis spots around the world, have been using the World Wide Web to tell the world their personal stories of fear and survival and to deliver firsthand analysis.

The weblog Global Voices Online, a nonprofit media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has been collecting posts by bloggers writing about the military conflict between Georgia and Russia that began Friday.

The Caucasian Knot hopes to meet with Georgian bloggers over the next few days. If any are reading this post, please drop me an email.