In a message dated 9/12/2005 6:49:47 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With the help of volunteers from Yahoo, we worked together to create a web crawler that have used quite successfully here in Houston. Go to http://news.yahoo.com/katrinahelp and put a name in the box on the top right of the page. Click "enter" and it will web crawl all of the various databases. Since all the sites are "crawled" we have chosen a very simple site for evacuees to list themselves as survivors or to list loved ones they are looking for. On the list of sites we have aggregated is Family Messages which allows individuals to write extended comments and provide other information in the comments section. We have also aggregated many other tools on the site.
Will Will: Wonderful. Don't mean to push the envelope beyond what can be done. With what are obviously stretched resources, well beyond the reasonable "call of duty." But have you and the Yahoo folks thought about databasing any typical information/resource needs and templates for help that could be available on a "Resource/Information Portal" that could be relevant to evacuees in Houston, Lafayetete, Baton Rouge, etc., that could represent the same type of problems that Gulf Coast refugees might have in other parts or the country - e.g. Chicago. Don _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
