Hombrearmonica’s Weblog

This morning I wished to tell you about the new Berlüsca gaffe, and his menaces to information, press and television. But I have heavy my heart, because I have witnessed at first hand how difficult is the situation occurring in Weblin at every technical difficulties.

Someone doesn’t know what is Weblin? More than a social network, more than a chat tool, but an instrument to meet persons. Unlike Second Life, weblin is in every page of the web; where is a weblin, there is Weblin. And when two weblins meets, they can talk about all, yeah, from sex to politics, from fun to the few months of life remaining, as happened to me more times.

This application is due to a German firm, the Zweitgeist GmbH, which has designed, developed and supported the whole so far. In two years we have grown to more than 2 million; alright, not the numbers of facebook, twitter or other similar, but from all parts of our Earth, knowing each others despite of languages and prejudices. And this was the project: let people know that who you meet for chance is one like you are, indipendently of language, religion, race, political ideas.

In Weblin we have also chatrooms dedicated to Balkans, in a bet that all its peoples can stay together and know each other, starting friendships and, why not, loves.

Now, this financial and economic crisis, between the many victims it did, is killing this generous experiment, testifying from one side a great social interest, and highest technical skills from the other, of the firm that realized the whole. They are forced by cruel laws of accounts to dismiss the team of young people who hold the social and technology summit of Weblin, leaving the system in the hands of voluntaries, who haven’t (and can’t) all instruments to continue.

We don’t wish to let die one of most generous tool of understanding between peoples that have been created on the web. We need a generous sponsor permitting to go through the sad moment. A generous sponsor, but also intelligent: better allowing to survive the tools of understanding and friendship, rather than hate.

Personally, if this sponsor would be the Berlüsca himself, (excuse me, Berlusconi), I would be ready even to pay tribute to him, sincerely.

Let Weblin survive, please.