This is Maitri Venkat-Ramani of Project Gutenberg and resident of New Orleans until about a week ago. You've probably been inundated with a ton of Katrina-related news, but I wanted to let you know of three online efforts (blogs and wikis) by New Orleans evacuees. I was wondering if you could help spread the word in your physical as well as electronic community so we can, as they say, mobilize America and help get as much information out as possible. 1) My personal blog is http://vatul.net/blog/ and it is "on the ground" info as well as resources and perspective for evacuees, neighborhood updates and some opinion. CNN/FoxNews and other disastertainment coverage is mostly offensive and disappointing - this is the time when net-savvy evacuees can make a difference. My best friend remains in New Orleans - as much as I don't like it, she gives me a lot of first-hand assessments of the situation. 2) The ThinkNOLA.com wiki - All types of organized information from resources to pictures and neighborhood updates to aid organization. No opinion. 3) The KatrinaHelp blog at http://katrinahelp.blogspot.com/ - news and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts. Created by the fine folks who made the most successful Southeast Asian Earthquake & Tsunami blog. No opinion. This is also the home of the Katrina Help wiki http://192.122.183.218/wiki/, which is different from the ThinNOLA one mentioned above. Please help get the word out! I'll submit these links to the Internet Archive as well, but your help in spreading the news is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Maitri http://vatul.net/blog/ *** --- Jon Noring <jon@noring.name> wrote:
[I'm forwarding this for Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive. If you have any Katrina-related links, please submit them as detailed below. As Brewster requests, please forward the following message to other relevant mailing lists and online forums. Jon Noring, TeBC Administrator]
The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, needs help in finding URL's of sites and blogs that contain documents of this major
disaster.
Please email links to sites and pages that should be saved for future
research to katrina@archive.org.
We have worked to archive events such as 9/11 and the tsunami with the generous help of volunteers finding and sending in links. We then save these digital works for the long term and create research tools (for example: http://www.loc.gov/minerva/collect/sept11/ index.html and http://web.archive.org ). As a library, we provide
free access to those wanting to learn from these events-- we can only
hope that we learn some lessons from disasters such as these.
Again, please send email to katrina@archive.org with lists of URL's you suggest should be archived relevant to the Katrina Disaster.
We are also looking for a couple of volunteers that can help orchestrate the crawl. If you are interested, please send a note to
katrina@archive.org with "volunteer" in the subject line.
Please forward this message to any appropriate lists or people.
Thank you.
-Brewster Kahle Digital Librarian Internet Archive
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