In the spirit of Godwin’s Law I am half-inclined to run a sweepstake about how long it will be before we see news articles and self-aggrandising postings about how:

The Blogosphere is helping organise disaster relief in Tsunami-hit SE Asia and India!

…like blogging needed some justification for its continued existence, or something.

I give it ten days before the self-congratulation sets-in.

By way of writing something positive, if you do want to do something to help, contact your local branch of the experts:

• International Committee of the Red Cross – [www.icrc.org]
• American Red Cross – [www.redcross.org]
• British Red Cross – [www.redcross.org.uk]
• Canadian Red Cross – [www.redcross.ca]
• …

See [news.bbc.co.uk] for some context around the relief efforts and a bit of a who’s-who list.