Riotous blogging
Aug. 11th, 2011 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pallas_athenaOn Tuesday night, when I was waiting to see whether the riots would hit my neighbourhood, I exercised my guest-blogger privileges at mightygodking to write a little more about what was happening, tailored for Chris's mostly-non-UK audience.
I've tried to avoid the two pitfalls of blogging in a crisis situation:
1) Making it all about me me meeeeeeee
2) Instantly morphing into an all-knowing expert on crowd psychology, social politics, economics, etc etc etc.
I hope I've succeeded in avoiding both.
Yesterday, a police van suddenly pulled up right across from my house-- but it turned out they were only getting a kebab.
Right now, as I type, there's a copter hovering directly overhead. They've been there for about 10 minutes. Are they lowering someone on a string towards the kebab shop? If so, I envy them this technology.
I've tried to avoid the two pitfalls of blogging in a crisis situation:
1) Making it all about me me meeeeeeee
2) Instantly morphing into an all-knowing expert on crowd psychology, social politics, economics, etc etc etc.
I hope I've succeeded in avoiding both.
Yesterday, a police van suddenly pulled up right across from my house-- but it turned out they were only getting a kebab.
Right now, as I type, there's a copter hovering directly overhead. They've been there for about 10 minutes. Are they lowering someone on a string towards the kebab shop? If so, I envy them this technology.