In fact, you must see the recent post by Terry Heaton’s Pomo Blog – this is just so amazing:
http://donatacom.com/archives/00001024.htm
UPDATE: And this from Adam Gaffin at NetworkWorld.com: “For a first-person blog by somebody who is holed up on the 11th floor of a downtown office building to keep his company data center running (along with some other staffers, his model girlfriend, and a dwindling supply of diesel fuel for the emergency generators)”: The Interdictor
It doesn’t get any better than that.
Terry has a bead on the intersection of traditional news broadcasting and bloggers on the Internet:
Disaster brings the Web into focus
All media’s use of the Internet — and, in a unique way, blogs and blog technology — in keeping us and the whole world informed about the catastrophe in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is a welcome recognition of its place in the media firmament. Here’s an excellent example. Let me echo the comments of fellow Nashvillian Rex Hammock:The time has come to officially end all “blog vs. traditional media” debates. It’s the story that matters. It’s the lives that matter. It’s whatever it takes to get the word out that matters. I’m sorry it has to come down to life and death for some folks to get this.I completely agree with Rex and certainly hope that a new respect for blogging will be one of the fruits of this disaster. The technology provides an easy and effective way to publish information, and rather than bitching about it, we’re seeing mainstream media outlets use it effectively. Let’s hope this clears the way for a new generation of mainstream blogging innovations.
But it isn’t just blogging that’s getting props today. The Web as a significant part of our daily media lives is coming into focus.
The Times-Picayune’s Web outlet, nola.com, remains one of the most important links in the media chain on this story. The paper is unable to publish the old-fashioned way, but they are able to communicate information to the rest of us via the Web. A newspaper is now joined forever with its Web distribution.
Aren’t we seeing a pattern here in this year 2005? Bloggers and people with cell phone cameras giving us blow-by-blow information right after the tsunami hit, then again after the bombings in London this summer, and now Hurricane Katrina.
Are you seeing where people like you and me can participate in the reporting of the news, versus standing idly by watching? The world is changing, and you and I have more control and opportunity to participate. We also have more control over what news we get by carefully selecting RSS feeds from bloggers AND news sources. We can even create our own RSS feed and participate in the reporting of the news or comment on it.
Tom
