Andy Carvin wrote:

>
>
> 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.

Interesting - are there telecentres at the stadiums? That would be
really good. VoIP calls, email... letting people know that they are OK.
The blogging would be good too.


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