Comments on: Can bloggers save Darfur?

By: shoosyDum

shoosyDum — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:35:21 +0000

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By: Drima

Drima — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:05:01 +0000

check this

http://sudanesetruthseeker.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-came-across-these-on-skin-magazine.html

By: Esra'a

Esra'a — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:28:56 +0000

Cooper – the Sudanese Thinker is Drima. As in, our co-editor, and one of the leaders of this campaign.

By: cooper

cooper — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:20:06 +0000

There are currently no bloggers who are part of the direct conflict able to actually blog about it.

The Sudanese thinker blogs from the Sudan and often blogs about Darfur but blogs about other things as well.

http://www.sudanesethinker.com/

I wish you luck in getting the Arab media to start covering this conflict prolifically.

By: Esra'a

Esra'a — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:37:49 +0000

I’ll keep an eye out on this and see what type of reactions we get.

By: Drima

Drima — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:42:09 +0000

Great! Let’s just do our thing. We haven’t even really started with the initiative yet and people like this guy are already showering us with criticism. Anyways, it doesn’t bother me much (except the fact that he didn’t take the time to actually go through the site and read the stuff there). Believe me once this initiave is up and running, the impact will start being visible and hopefully people like this dude will change their minds.

Yalla gotta run. Salam & thanks =)

By: Esra'a

Esra'a — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:25:42 +0000

(Also – this page is facing a weird technical issue, ignore it for now.)

By: Esra'a

Esra'a — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:22:02 +0000

Yeah, and did you know that more people have been blogging about Darfur after this intiative, linking it to the same story that encouraged us to start the campaign and thus highlighting the severity of the situation? That’s already an accomplishment.

Also, our banner is pretty huge! Yet many people are kindly adding it to their blogs, increasing our readership which in turn increases more awareness and a need to get involved.

With other campaigns, getting involved is not so easy – but with this, we’re pretty much requiring involvement (as opposed to, say, money.) After people become members, eventually they will feel the need to be part of the discussion as well.

I’m already trying to recruit more Sudanese bloggers from inside Sudan with the help of Hiba. Not only that but I’m going to do my best to get people from within Darfur itself to give us their view in a more elaborate way.

This is excellent. I really hope it works out.

I’m really working on getting the attention of BBC Arabic, it’s really important, but before I do that I will wait until the site gets more busy and we have more information available, both in English and Arabic. I’ll translate the “about” page into Arabic (and I’ll try French) soon.

By: Drima

Drima — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:14:46 +0000

If only I wasn’t so damn busy, I would have responded to this guy. All the things he’s wondering about, we’re already working on. Can’t he get that?

I’m already trying to recruit more Sudanese bloggers from inside Sudan with the help of Hiba. Not only that but I’m going to do my best to get people from within Darfur itself to give us their view in a more elaborate way.

Check out this guy for example:

http://rsasoldier.blogspot.com/

He’s a soldier in Darfur working with the African Union troops already present there.

With more people like this blogging almost daily from within Darfur itself, we will have a lot of things to post about regularly so that people can become more aware.

Not only that but doesn’t he get that through “We blog for Darfur” we’ll also be automatically promoting and helping push other Darfur initiatives that we’ll list there?

Oh well… By this Sunday I’ll be done with the main pages. After that we can officially launch and build it into a much bigger initiaive.