A handful of updates on blogosphere reaction to today's terrorist attacks in Madrid, which killed more than 190 and injured over 1,000. Informally-constructed "condolence walls" are apppearing online; here is an example of a previously existing page on which the comments section has been transformed into a series of homenajes to the 03/11 dead. (Note: my Wired News colleague Leander Kahney points out that this page seems to have started out as a memorial wall for Miguel Angel Blanco, a Basque politician who was kidnapped and murdered by ETA a coupe of years ago).
This 03/11 site, launched earlier today by popular Spanish weblog Bitacoras, is dedicated to blogosphere coverage of the attacks. This page offers another comprehensive list of blog coverage links (nearly all are Spanish language sites). ALT1040's offering coverage. Victor Ruiz has assembled a good page in English with background.
Much activity on blogs in France, as well.
Countless homenajes throughout the web, including little graphics like the bandera at left from Patricio Lopez' site.
Massive demonstrations are planned for tomorrow at 7:00 pm local time in cities all over Spain. Expect live blog coverage. Numerous BB readers in Spain and elsewhere write in to remind us that there is much debate over whether or not ETA is in fact responsible, completely or in part, for the attacks.
And finally, this from the weblog called "Lost in Madrid," — a "Post of Silence." Please excuse my hasty, clumsy translation from the original Spanish.
May they hear our silence in every corner of the Internet, from all of our weblogs. May they hear our condemnation of this massacre. We denounce the ETA; we denounce all forms of violence and terrorism. All we want is to live in peace. Unity and democracy are the most powerful weapons we have against terrorism… Tomorrow [through the demonstrations that will take place] at 7:00PM, Madrid will be inundated with silence. And on Sunday, we will all go to vote, and we will tell those assasins that our votes are the "arms" that we use. We will tell them that peace is the language we understand.
Hoy todos somos madrileños.
(thanks, JL, AD, Joi, and others)
