misia where she has provided a safe space for abuse survivors to tell their stories.I have closed down comments on this post. No further comments on this post will be displayed. It has received close to one thousand comments in a little over 24 hours thus far... I apologize to anyone who wanted to add a comment here in solidarity and in witness to their own strength and survival.
This thousand-person comment blizzard an example of the sort of multi-user discourse which was impossible before the new technology. Most analyses of blogging concentrate on the 'big bloggers' - the nodes in the communication network (such as Atrios or Instapundit). But I think there is another way in which blogging works, which is by creating a widely-spread net of millions of small blogs. It just couldn't have existed a few years ago, partly because nothing was quite as easy to use as livejournal, so people with limited specialist knowledge were excluded. Anyway, I wonder what type of long term effects this opening up of communication will have.
EDITED to add - the 'slogan' of the post that I referenced is no pity, no shame, no silence: just thought I ought to make clear I am not pitying the women and men who commented, I'm applauding them.