Piu' vado avanti, e piu' il mondo dei Blog assume forme, colori e sapori sempre piu' vivi. Ultimamente il mio blog sta attirando su di se' numerosi commenti da persone reali o non, ricevo numerose email da sconosciuti dall'estero, lettere che trasudano una vitalita' difficilmente descrivibile. Vorrei farvi leggere quello che mi scrivono, ma non mi sembra corretto. Fidatevi, se vi dico che mi hanno strappato sorrisi e commozione.
Commozione come dopo avere letto la biografia di Noah Grey, quel signore che ha inventato Greymatter, il tool di sviluppo per blog che ho usato per il mio sito... E' un fotografo, tra le altre cose, e i suoi lavori sono degni - almeno - di una visita.
Mi ha commosso, dicevo, perche' in poche righe chiarisce TUTTO. Cosa e' un blog, a cosa serve, perche' lo si apre, lo si rende pubblico, e quant'altro. E' la soluzione per gli scettici, pure...

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Noah, please give us a brief introduction to who you are and what you do, specifically your work in community and the web.

Noah Grey, 26. For about three and a half years (1997-2000), I ran the Male Abuse Survivors Support Forum (MASSF), the first and largest community and resource network on the net for male survivors of sexual abuse. The MASSF had around 700 members altogether throughout its lifespan.

Why did you start the forum?

In 1997, I had a very severe and traumatic flashback – an experience common to many rape survivors in which sights, sounds and feelings from the event come back with sudden, overpowering force. I felt fundamentally misunderstood and alone. I started searching the net for a place I could talk about it and find some kind of understanding, but all the groups I found were female-oriented, and I didn't feel comfortable enough to take part in them. Other than a handful of dry psychiatric pages, I found almost nothing that fully, specifically addressed the sexual abuse of males at all.

It was clear to me there was a great need here that nobody was meeting. So, as a kind of desperate lark, I threw together a very basic bulletin board for the most selfish of reasons: to gain support for myself, and to see if I could help myself by helping others. (At the time, I was already running another bulletin board on my site which had become quite successful in its own right and I had run countless bulletin boards and chat rooms going all the way back to my late-80s BBS days, so setting up yet another board was a fairly natural process for me.) I did so very quietly and hesitantly – I was no expert, after all. I had no professional training and had never offered counseling to survivors before – all I had to offer was the fact that I was another survivor. And that's what I wanted it to be: by survivors, for survivors.

What was it like to run the site?

It was both the most profoundly rewarding, and most profoundly demanding, experience of my life. Demanding because the subject matter was so obviously intense and personal, and something which I had to engage myself in with all these other people on a near-daily basis. Rewarding because I got to see how much of a positive, healing difference it made to so many. Men from 11 to 70 have told me I've saved their lives, but I didn't, I just made a place where together they could learn to find their own strength and save their own lives. I never felt right claiming credit for that, any more than an instrument maker can take credit for a great concert or performance. But in the moments I could truly let myself feel that I had some real part of it, that I'd been a part of this beautiful, healing thing which so many needed – that was the greatest feeling in the world

Quando ci troviamo? Io sto preparando la discussione della tesi... sono un po' sotto...
...e ho la febbre, mi sa... :-\
ciao ciao
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