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Blogs and blog comments are an effective way of participating in a community discussion. If you keep a custom home page at one of the common portals (Yahoo, Google, etc), it's convenient to "subscribe" (using Atom or RSS) to a selection of blogs so you can see new posts effortlessly. Much can be learned from the variety of viewpoints, and by posting appropriate comments you can also raise awareness of Appropedia's mission as well.
Livejournal has a particularly lively community of bloggers and blog-readers interested in development issues, including development workers; it has "communities" or group blogs; and it also allows registered users to view blogs by all their Livejournal "friends" (i.e. favorite bloggers) on a single page (e.g. Chriswaterguy's friends page); it also allows comments to form threads, making conversations easier (and livelier) in comment sections.
Please add appropriate blogs to the table below, including your own if you author an appropriate blog.
Key for Topics:
- ApTech = Appropriate technology
- IntDev = International development
- Sust = Sustainability
- Disaster = Disaster relief (emergency management).
| Blog | Topics | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| EWB-SFP Appropriate Technology Design Team | ApTech | By the Engineers Without Borders Professionals Chapter in San Francisco, focused on stoves. |
| AIDG Blog | ApTech | By The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group |
| Afrigadget | ApTech | By Erik Hersman and Co. Focusing on appropriate technology solutions in Africa. |
| Sustainable Design Update | ApTech, Sust | By John Barrie. Appropriate technology and green design. |
| Little Devices that Could | ApTech | By Jose Gomez-Marquez. Appropriate technology and health. |
| Street Use | ApTech | By Kevin Kelly. Developing world tech hacks and mods. |
| MAKE Blog | ApTech | Very broad scope, anything about making something by oneself. Occasionally has appropriate technology. Good place to put posts about good practical projects. On the Make Magazine website. |
| HungerMovement Blogs | IntDev | All the posts seem to be by Michael Haddigan, but presumably there's some other bloggers too? |
| Private Sector Development Blog | IntDev, private enterprise | Bloggers from the World Bank Group |
| My Heart's in Accra | IntDev, Africa, Wikipedia | By Ethan Zuckerman, who is somewhat involved in Wikipedia/Wikimedia stuff. |
| Resolution | IntDev, Sust, peace | By Curt, who also contributes here... |
| Views from the Center | IntDev | Center for Global Development |
| Timbuktu Chronicles | Sust, private enterprise | Emeka Okafor (who posted on Village Earth's AT wiki back in May) |
| Grist | Sust | environmental news |
| Andrew’s Sustainapedia | Sust | Andrew Netherton blogging about his planned sustainability portal. |
| Pyjama Samsara | IntDev | By Vasco-Pyjama, focusing on development issues in Indonesia |
| No Average Days | IntDev | Teaching reproductive health and gender in rural Bangladesh. |
| Aid Workers Network | IntDev | Blogs by aid/development workers. Includes pages of posts listed by topics such as Advice for first-time aid workers. |
| World Wide Help | Disaster | Mentions disaster, sometimes adds information on how to help. |
| Far Togo | IntDev, Africa | Andy M, a Peace Corps volunteer, writes of his work in Togo. |
| Aaron In Africa: My Time in Togo | IntDev, Africa | Another Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, setting up a computer centre (described in his Project post). |
| Kevin in Liberia | IntDev, Africa | Kevin Fryatt... "to raise awareness of current social, political, ethical, and spiritual issues within a relief and development context in Liberia." |
| DC-10 Dairy | IntDev, Health | Celia Yeung, "travelling all over the world and working with a multi-national medical team and volunteer faculty onboard the world's only ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital... My main roles are PR and communications, and creating public awareness on prevention of blindness through advocacy and local media." |
| on adaptive reuse | Sust (sometimes ApTech, IntDev) | critical blog about the constant evolution and adaptation of human production and culture. |
| Global Voices Online | Global issues, diversity | "The World is talking. Are you listening?" |
| Green Options blog | Sust | "Greening The Good Life!" - covers "a broad spectrum of green topics." |
| Temas Blog | IntDev, ApTech, Latin America | Keith Ripley, "Musings about the Evolution of Consumer, Environmental & Health Policy in Latin America & the Caribbean" |
| WorldChanging.com | Sust | High profile, focus on "Bright green" stuff. |
| TreeHugger | Sust | high profile, owned by Discovery Channel.W |
[edit] See also
- Appropedia:Promotion_of_Appropedia (blogs are a valuable way of letting people know about Appropedia. But the intention is only to leave valuable comments and let people know about this website and community if it's relevant to them. The intention is not to spam!
