Blanknoise - open blog
March 7th, 2008 by yp392A school friends of mine started this project Blanknoise.
It’s basically a project that runs in the big cities in India where there is a high percentage of eve-teasing on the streets. Women in these cities often come across the lack of empathy when molested/eve-teased as a lot of people think they dress ‘provacatively’ and hence ‘they had it coming’ or ‘they asked for it’
It’s a bold project that asks women to showcase what they were wearing while molestation, as there shouldn’t be anything such as ‘asking for it’
The project communicates via a blog that is updated from time to time. I saw an opportunity for mobile blogging as this was a specific case where incidents happen on streets, on the go. And it would add immediacy to the campaign if onlookers/victims could post information about such incidents - number plates/photos of the accused/ or the clothes that they were wearing!
I did build an actual blog where anyone could send post via mobile phones. However it’s still a conceptual project as some of the services that I was using, I wasn’t sure if they were available in India. And even getting user testing in that group was difficult as I lost touch with the organizers at some point!
So this is how it works (or can work)
People can send a message to 41411 (Textmarks) with blanknoise in the body.
They get subscribed to the service and get a introductory message from Blanknoise
Clicking the intro link sends you to the upload script
You can upload a picture and write the post and submit it….
It will get posted to the blog and you can view that here
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