Blogs and Disaster Relief

With the ongoing human tragedy that's going on in Louisiana and the

Gulf Coast, it seems a little trivial to be tapping away at my
keyboard

right now, talking about blogs, but it's about all I can do right now.


First

off, if you haven't yet, please, please donate to the cause of
disaster

relief. There are a lot of people who are going to need a lot of help,

so please give if you're able.





As previously mentioned, Network for Good

has compiled a one-stop shop of organizations that are helping

hurricane victims; they're all reputable charitable organizations, so

please:

Donate
Now

Next up, here are a few
notable examples of things going on in the blog
world:

* The entire Tulane
University Web site has gone over to a status update
blog

* Instapundit,

typically a politically-focused blog, has gone over pretty much

exclusively to listing out flood aid resources that are recommended by

bloggers all over the political spectrum: Instapundit.com.

*
Here's the Slidell Hurricane Damage
Blog

* You can find a good round-up of
news stories and other resources at Al's Morning Meeting -- it's a daily
digest of stuff that journalists and other news-minded folks can use
for potential stories.

* Nola.com
continues to have stellar coverage of the situation in New Orleans;
they also have a Web board set up for people
looking for missing persons.

* The AOL
News folks have launched a photoblog for Katrina Photos; you can see
other examples of citizen journalism and photojournalism in my previous
entry on citizen journalism.



There's obviously tons and tons of blogs and blog-related articles out

there, so please feel free to share items you've found in the comments

below.





Lastly for now, please don't forget:

Donate
Now

Talk to you later. -- Joe