PC World, via YahooNews, has presented a list of Tech Winners and
Losers of 2005, by Dan Tynan
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ttpcworld/20051216/tc_techtues_pcworld/123923&cid=1740&ncid=1729
(URL must be on ONE line to work)
I thought this particular winner/loser set would be of particular
interest to the Digital DIvide Network community (please note that
the comments are Dan Tynan's, NOT mine):
WINNER: The Survival Blog of New Orleans
Operating from the offices of Web host DirectNIC in downtown New
Orleans, the Interdictor blog kept posting during the worst of
Hurricane Katrina, powered by a 750-kilowatt diesel generator and a
fiber-optic hookup. Blogger Michael Barnett and his colleagues slept
in the air-conditioned room where they kept the servers, and blogged
throughout the crisis. The Interdictor's live Webcam offered some of
the first images of the city following the disaster, and the blog has
continued to cover the region's recovery and rebuilding.
LOSER: The FEMA Web site
Though it hardly counts as the worst of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency's transgressions during Katrina, the FEMA site
where displaced people could apply for federal aid worked only with
Internet Explorer and JavaScript. Relief workers using donated
computers were forced to use the notoriously insecure browser to
enter hurricane victims' personal information. Seems like everybody
at FEMA was doing one heckava job.
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