Thank you for your comments. About the fallacy in my logic, I didn’t want to say that blogs were all too powerful by mentioning the incident of Singapore. In fact, that’s why I added ‘whom I visited’. I just wanted to say that blogs were means of the fresh news during that time.

First of all, you might have met too few nepalese out there to have made the claim.
Second, there is logical fallacy out here. You cannot meet a couple of people there and make a claim that online blogging had been all too powerful. It is just like going to some parts of mao-influenced Rolpa and taking polls on whether Prachanda should be the president of Nepal and claiming that all the people favor it.

In any case, I agree that online media was important during the emergency period specially for the people who lived outside the country. However, most of the people I have met-in hundreds-still go to ekantipur or nepalnews for information.

It is one thing to cite the importance of blogging and quite another to make fallacious claims.

Personally i ain’t too fond talking about politics in general, but having said that u can’t underestimate the blogs that helped raise awareness during the “King’s Age”, like blog.com.np, radiofree.blogspot.com or samudaya.org. Or even the emails sent out for awareness like the ones about king’s property contribute to online media.

But ironically people in the villages, or away from the centers, who ought to be knowing more of all these, in order to rise, have very little access to all the media, let alone online media. So rather than going after each other we MUST help each other out in all possible ways we can. Especially now that we have more liberty than ever before.

PEACE ON!