nov. 27 2008 poynter institute by amy gahran right now the indian city of mumbai is reeling under coordinated terrorist attacks. in addition to mainstream news coverage from india and around the world internet users are sharing news and information including people in mumbai some of whom are at or near the attack scenes.heres a quick roundup of social media ......
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turducken is in the oven and the misfit toys will be showing up later. parlor games are in the mix as is an over abundance of food and liquid social lubricant. we should all take a moment before our respective celebrations to reflect on the plight of the people in mumbai. while we indulge in gustatory excess many of them lie dead or bleeding. on the gulf coast we are often pushed to anger by th....
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real time. that is the gift of social media. i remember being so incredibly glad of the connectivity provided by twitter during our own evacuation during hurricane gustav. now as the situation in mumbai explodes across the internet my dear friend maitri maitri on twitter has rallied together the prime social media based resources for connecting to the situation. via vatulblog ......
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newsflash to phoenix recycling subscribers start digging through your recyclables and pull out the cardboard. david mcdonough of phoenix sent the following in an email to subscribers effective immediately we can no longer accept cardboard with mixed paper on residential routes.one of the first signs of economic hardship in the recycling industry is tightening paper markets and falling commodi......
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crossposted at maitris vatulblog . our chad s still appear to be hung people. it started with diebold and now carries on with voting machines made by other companies. the following are instances of voteflipping from democrat to republican or other that ive come across in just the last hour. an acorn worker may have registered mickey mouse but across the nation a properlyregi......
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filed under news plants and wildlife heres your daily dose of cuteness. two tiger cubs were born at the institute of greatly endangered and rare species in south carolina during hurricane hannah.the property was severely flooded and the cubs had to be separated from their mother. since then they have been in the care of twoyearold anjana . anjana assists with their feeding an......
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southern louisiana after ike karen apricot new orleans flickr maitri is a geoscientist and activist in new orleans by way of india kuwait and the midwest. shes worried that the louisiana coast and its united houma nation are being abandoned in the wake of hurricanes gustav and ike. thanks sarolta cump . a whole american ecosystem and culture are disappearing ......
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so theres ignoramus wwl talk show host spud mcconnell today redfaced templesthrobbing veinpopping hysterical after he heard somewhere that the house and senate were continuing to work on energy legislation even though they knew full well that it wouldnt pass in the other house of congress. since i was forced to listen to spud break wind through his pie hole while on hold fo......
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i swore that i wouldnt crosspost anything at hc that first appeared on my own blog. this isnt exactly a crosspost so im not exactly a liar except in a mavericky way. btw mccain really puts the ick in maverick doesnt he i recently posted a link to the sarah palin name generator. its been a big hit with the kids so i thought yall might like ......
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some of our readers may well have noticed that once again a new crop of authors are appearing on the blog. you see humidcity is an organic community that continually grows and shifts. while i remain the dictatorial overlord the cast of characters goes through a pretty consistent state of flux. rooted firmly in the pass the mic ethos of the hiphop scene we try to bring in new voic......
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it is with sadness that i am forced to report that my predictions from the past three years continue to come true. its enough to make one sympathize with cassandra . while there is no shortage of commentary about katrina rita and the levee failure in new orleans i think that one of the bigger points has been often overlooked. namely my own constant assertion that the main reason we ne......
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this title is the most important line i take away from maitris report of her trip with karen gadbois of squandered heritage down the bayou deep into hurricane gustav ground zero in terrebonne parish. a good number of the men i talked with on the island work as roughnecks roustabouts derrick hands and contractors on offshore oil platforms. they spoke of the irony of working for an ind......
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actually weve been back for a while but much too mentally drained to post. we felt an enormous wave of relief opening the door to the house and seeing everything just as we had left it. that moment of opening the door on return was so vastly different from our last evac and return . the timing of gustav was just too eerie too unsettling too close. but as my wife said this tim......
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345 p.m. update the red cross truck was leaving golden meadows this afternoon for raceland but it wasnt known how much was left on the truck. theres a forklift to move palettes off of the truck. if theres enough material arriving in raceland that volunteers are needed another call for help may go out on wednesday probably in the morning. brenda dardar robichea......
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so we are home. have had a fairly nice weekend hanging out with friends hearing some great great music and trying to get back to normal. we are keeping an eye on ike but not as much as a few days ago. so all and all things are going great here in nola. however there are places here in louisiana that desperately need help. just because nola fared alright from gustav many places didn......
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as maitri karen gadbois and nolanotes and many others have pointed out terrebonne and lafourche parishes sustained major damage from hurricane gustav. everyone in the small fishing and shrimping communities like dulac pointe aux chene and chauvin are severely affected most are now homeless. hardhit were the houma indians many of whom lived close or in the marsh were storm surge and wi......
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new orleans geophysicist blogger and allaround beautiful writer maitri venkatramani has a piece in this mornings uk independent the eye of the storm leaving new orleans is not an easy choice in the wee hours of yesterday morning as we looked at computer models that put hurricane gustav closer and closer to new orleans my husband and i finally made the firm decis......
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so how does one spend a hurrication by tomorrow when many of my readers will be viewing this we will likely still be waiting to find out if the levees hold. in the mean time for those who have not had the pleasure of experiencing a hurrication here are some of the things that we do compulsively. 1. watch news on anything having to do with the storm. theres a level of information ......
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for those of you who were watching the beeb bbc earlier today but missed the url of the lady blogger from new orleans who was speaking here it is sarahs katrina in new orleans blog. i also googled around and discovered maitris vat ulblogrsq uo along with an entry dated august 31 . theres also a twitter page for updates.......
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the following is by gambit guest blogger and new orleans resident leigh c. who maintains her own blog lipraps lament the line . you can read more of her writing there. editors note this post is in relation to rising tide iii a bloggers conference held last weekend in new orleans. to learn more about it go to rising tides web site. walking ......
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so i was feeling all invigorated from attending my first rising tide on saturday. unfortunately i ended up working all night and felt like a zombie on sunday. there was simply no way i could string two coherent words together much less complete whole sentences. it really was fantastic to meet everyone that ive read enjoyed and sometimes interacted with these past three years celcu......
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sunday morning well sort of afternoonnight from dangerblonds compound light rain is falling outside the remnants of fay makingher way across the gulf states making me glad i hadnt planned to drive back to atlanta today. i almost titled this post rising tide iii the hangover but thats not completely accurate. somehow thanks probably to being a dist......
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from the zeitgeist multidisciplinary artscenter john barry is getting ready to speak as oyster our fearless bivalve leader provides an introduction. i will continue to update this all day so check back often. barry tells us that he was in this space a few weeks after the storm so it holds extra meaning to him to be speaking to us here today. quot......
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maitri posts the best synopsis of the past several days in new orleans that i have yet seen. gets right on down to the nitty gritty and boy is it gritty. via vatul blog on returning to new orleans ive discovered that the city wronglydemolished a home jessica hawk from ohiowas found murdered in her home on the 3000 block of chartres in the bywater two people were......
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