Bloggers react to South Asian tsunami disaster

Bloggers reacted quickly to the South Asian tsunami disaster by posting community updates (sometimes through text messaging) and charity listings, reports The New York Times. But some political bloggers also seized the opportunity to espouse ?crackpot? theories about the disaster. Some bloggers faulted Bush Administration policies for the South Asian tsunami disaster. Contributors to liberal sites such as Democratic Underground pointed to the War in Iraq or environmental pollution as the catalyst for the earthquake and subsequent wave. True to the Web?s ?self-correcting? editorial fashion, subsequent postings have focused on the scientific cause of earthquakes.