Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Blank Noise Project blog is an online diary with a difference. It's a diary written by men and women across the country, detailing their experiences with sexual harassment. It's a way of tapping into the infinite potential of cyberspace.
From highlighting social issues to chronicling every last detail of an individual's life, blogs haven't just come of age; they have taken on a life of their own.
But they aren't the only weapons online activists have in their arsenal. Online petitions like those found on petitiononline.com are another method activists employ to keep their causes alive.
From seeking justice for Jessica and Priyadarshini Matoo to more global issues like peace in Lebanon, if it's a cause someone believes in, it will find its way to your inbox.
“The Internet is a shortcut to get your opinions heard,” says an online petitioner, Dhruv Suri.
Social networking sites like Orkut have more than a million registered Indian users.
From connecting via words to connecting through video, YouTube is the new billion-dollar baby.
This online video-sharing site lets you share everything from social injustice to social suicide in seconds. It’s part-informative, part-entertaining and thoroughly addictive.
Call Web 2.0 what you will-a fad, a revolution-but there's no denying that the Internet as we once knew it, has changed forever.
The new World Wide Web tells us everything from the crisis in Darfur to the crisis in Play Station 3's. And it tells us that because we put it there in the first place.
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