- Tsunami<P>What an incredible disaster - it's amazing how much destruction nature can cause. </P>
<P>Reaction online has been interesting to follow. I've started working on a little project that involves pulling text from feeds all over the place, and one thing that struck me is how little people are talking about it. 115k+ people died but it's hardly worth mentioning. </P>
<P>The contrast between this and 9/11 is amazing - On 9/11 most websites, most people, said something. Somewhere around 3500 people died on 9/11, and today we have a disaster that's suddenly killed over 30 times as many people, and it's just not worth talking about.</P>
<P>(Obviously the major sites - news organizations and whatnot - are talking about the Tsunami, but I'm talking about bloggers, average people, and what's on their minds. Many high-profile bloggers are talking about it, but on the whole, it's a small amount </P>
<P>In a sampling of 50,000 random blog entries posted in the last few days, 2.52% of them mentioned the tsunami.</P>
<P>That seems like a pretty small number to me.</P>
<P> </P>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:08 GMT