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Revision as of 02:31, 6 March 2007

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
AIDG Blog ApTech By The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group
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 ApTech, IntDev, Sust 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."

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!
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