While the Twitter network competed with TV news channels with minute-by-minute updates of the terror attacks, blasting out dozens of updates every minutes as the high drama unfolded through the night, Mumbaimetblogs was also on the job, sending out calls for blood donations, listing out hospital numbers and baring the sense of public outrage and helplessness.

Arzan’s post on Mumbaimetblogs details how and when he learnt that his city was under siege. “If there’s one thing that I didn’t think I’d ever do when I took to blogging, it’s live-blogging during a bombing/hostage situation. Today was the premiere of the movie The President is Coming. While we were drinking free white wine, courtesy Sula, gunmen armed with grenades and automatic weapons stormed into the Taj and the Trident in Nariman Point. They were boys of about 20-25 year-olds and apparently they demanded that people with American and British passports to identify themselves. It’s now 12.56 am. The news channels are saying now that the terrorists are dead. Two have been shot at Girgaum Chowpatty.”

The ensuing sense of anger was also captured. A blogger writes, “We cannot tolerate these fanatics arriving in a boat on the Mumbai coast armed with explosives and guns. We cannot tolerate the fact that they got into high security stations and so called well protected hotels with guns and bombs and held people hostages. We cannot tolerate the fact that they killed people to just prove that they were capable of doing so. I refuse to be resilient. I refuse to be tolerant. I want answers and I want them now. I want to know why the intelligence did not spot this. I want to know why the coast guard did not spot this. How can we let these uncivilised people hold the city at siege? I don’t care if this post does not make sense”.

The frustration over the increasing frequency of terror attacks and the country’s inability to counter them was echoed across posts on blogs. “What will be the latest excuse by our home minster for his incapability? What will be the statement from our PM for his weakness in handling the terrorist? Congress is worried about his vote bank in one particular community so they will not act even though somebody will come and hit the very root of our identity. What worse than an attack at the very backbone of the financial capital of a nation who dream of becoming a financial super power. Who will come to do business in a country where the 5 star-hotel is attacked and taken hostage? Are we living in Pakistan or Afghanistan where a loaded truck of RD-X blown up a hotel? What are you thinking Mr. Singh? Are you waiting for ur ally Mr. Amar Singh to announce 10 lakh each to the family member of terrorist killed in today’s blast? Are you going to provide legal aid to terrorist suspects? Are you planning to place an commission to investigate if Mr. Karkare was killed by ATS itself and terrorist were innocent? Shame on these Indian politicians!!”, another furious blogger keyed in.

The terrorists’ focus on foreign nationals had the blog spots across countries working with sympathy and concern pouring out from all over. The Jewish and Israeli blog network JBlog Central had posts like these and many more on the Jews taken hostage.

“This has Al Qaeda written all over it. According to the TV report I heard, the terrorists were looking for westerners and specifically Americans in the attack. Tonight I pray for the victims’ families and for the well being of the hostages,” writes M on the Jblog central.

Pakistani blogging group ‘pakblogging’ read “On the same day that India and Pakistan negotiated a joint anti-terrorism mechanism, agreeing to exchange information on terrorists, coordinated attacks struck India’s commercial capital Mumbai. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families”, it read. “This is the Islamabad Marriott in reverse — a mirror image of the traumatic events of 9/11 and the attack on Islamabad” read Rupeenews which even, as it offered condolences to victims, cautioned that this attack could be a ‘false flag’ or “ruse to kill Muslims and attack Pakistan”.

The Foreign Policy’s Passport blog meanwhile wrote on Deccan Mujahideen claims saying “one must always be suspicious when a ‘new’ terrorist organization crops up”. Speculating on ‘rogue ISI links’ to Indian Mujahideen’s revenge motive and Lashkar connection, the blog revisits the Indo-Pak differences on Kashmir.