LJ cited as significant component of disaster recovery effort

[d4b]

As Katrina approached, evacuees relied on technology to coordinate travel. Some turned Web sites into emergency message boards. Blogger Mark Kraft (insomnia), in Santa Clara, Calif., kept in touch with many members of the LiveJournal online community that stayed in New Orleans

Comments

[journeyto]

Wow, that is so significant. Great news. :)

[lamerloky]

Yes!!!

[remark]

"A lot have been doing what's called a phone post,"

Not anymore. ;)

[elphanet]

wow, that's pretty cool

[henningz]

germany: deutsche presse agentur (german press agency), which is germany's biggest supplier for print information, today mentioned weblogs as now the most important media in times of crisis, since they report from the people, not the authorities. they even cited from alobars journal (who's in the middle of the damage)...

[harryh]

FYI: INTERDICTOR is the user posting updates from a data center in NOLA. It's a very interesting read.

[d4b]

Ah! Yes! Thanks!