Jim Brazell wrote:
Hi,
My name is Jim Brazell.
We have refugees from New Orleans and Thibodeaux here in San Antonio.
There are shelters forming where refugees have web access. There cell
phones are not working. Communication among the displaced is not tied to
a common core of services.
Can we form a blog for refugees?
ac: Quite easily, Jim. DDN (www.digitaldivide.net) has free blogs for
anyone who becomes a member. Or, you could use blogger.com like I did
for my hurricane blog. Both are very easy to set up; blogger would also
let you have a group blog, with multiple people posting to the site. If
you wanted to, you could even just use my blog -
http://katrina05.blogspot.com - since it was intended to be used in
exactly this way.
Does anyone know of a real-time Satellite Company where people can see
their property over the web?
ac: No, not offhand. There are satellite companies that charge people
for this service, but I don't know of any that do it for free online.
What is the url for confirmed deaths?
ac: Doesn't exist as of yet. There's no one official Katrina site. The
red cross may start posting it, or fema.gov. But the Wikipedia page for
Katrina is quite extraordinary people. They've done an excellent job
keeping it current. They even have a table that shows the death toll,
county by county (or parish by parish, as is the case for Louisiana).
Is there a missing or lost web site and search (People, Places and
Things).
ac: Several of them, but none of them official as of this morning. On my
blog I'm aggregating missing persons announcements and photos from
Craigslist and NowPublic.com, two of the main sources. Hopefully the red
cross will get its missing persons database up and running soon. They
were slow during the tsunami, and when it was launched, it crashed
because of traffic.
Is there a podcast?
ac: Again, no official podcast. Most of the local newspapers in the
region are posting multimedia. A few have been posted to my blog, but
not many as of yet. Mine's set up so anyone with access to a phone can
call in, leave a voicemail, and have it posted as a podcast. DDNer Chris
Warner Carey posted one yesterday about his plans to leave California
this weekend to volunteer in the relief efforts, for example. It would
be great if more people could post messages like this....
Is there a RSS bundle of streams?
I'm hoping to do this, but haven't had much time as of yet. I did
something similar on www.tsunami-info.org, but so far I've been focused
more on basic blogging. I'll see if I can pull something together by
tonight, but for now I need to concentrate on my day job - yes, I do
have a job.... :-)
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.tsunami-info.org
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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