Posted in Uncategorized, General, New Orleans, dawnsinger, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 29th, 2006 No Comments »
The frantic rush of work leading up to today's Katrina anniversary came to a screeching halt last night, as I received my call to jury duty. A day that was scheduled for memorials and interviews ends in the hushed murmur of a St. Tammany courtroom annex for Juror 76.
A year ago at this moment, […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, dawnsinger, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 26th, 2006 No Comments »
So here it is, Rising Tide Conference day, and ironically (or not, since we're in the peak of hurricane season), Tropical Storm Ernesto has locals flocking to Home Depot and Lowe's, or packing for the first potential evacuation of the year.
The latest five-day forecast map shows Ernesto entering the Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane, […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 25th, 2006 No Comments »
As Hurricane Katrina lumbered toward Greater New Orleans on Sunday, August 28, 2005, Julie Couret and her family were suffering the passing of her grandfather, who died in the wee hours. Sitting beside the bed of the dying family patriarch had cost the family the chance to flee the storm. So as the winds rose […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, dawnsinger, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 25th, 2006 No Comments »
To be honest, as the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina churns toward us, I'm getting a bit overwhelmed. As a journalist, the pressure is on to provide THE DEFINITIVE Katrina retrospective. And yet there is not really anything "retro" about our perspective; Katrina is still very much a real ordeal, without a real plan or solution […]
Posted in New Orleans on Aug 19th, 2006 No Comments »
My daughter Sarah, who was missing for five days during Katrina, and has now settled in Philadelphia after her evacuation, will arrive in New Orleans in a few hours for her first return to the city since Katrina. This is a particularly poignant moment for both me and Sarah.
Details on her return to come . […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
There is a specter hanging over Web 2.0 - the presence, or the decay, of net neutrality. Proponents of laws guaranteeing net neutrality fear that the current free-speech, affordable access to the entire internet will be lost as the big communications companies that own the bandwidth pipelines begin to filter out business rivals' sites, crack […]