The tragedy at Virginia Tech this past week has caused bloggers to spark into a frenzy. Bloggers have now come forward with their experiences and aspects of the story- including many Virginia Tech bloogers who turned to their computers as the event unraveled.
Some bloggers write about people who were killed in the shooting, including a professor who was a Holocaust survivor who threw himself in front of the shooter to save his students. Others write about their Alma Mater VT.
Many are lashing out at the response of their school, and the intense invasion of the media onto the Virginia Tech school campus. But the most commented-on blogs are from the VT students who were live-blogging on Monday here and here and here. Students also reportedly used social networks like Facebook and MySpace and other messaging technologies like Twitter.
Blogging has become such a force in the PR world, but this horrible tragedy has turned us to realize that blogs are often valuable and very versitile. The fact that these blogs have offered more information than most news stations has caused people to turn to the Virginia Tech bloggers for information and their current feelings.
Blogging is the current outlet that these students have, and they are utilizing it in every way. The massacre will go down in history as the worst campus shooting of all time, and the blogosphere will ensure that it’s not soon forgotten.
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