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KATRINA DAY, Aug. 29, 2007 - It hardly seems that two years have gone by since Katrina crushed us. The city is still numb and battered. Our new pioneers work feverishly and defiantly to keep from sliding into a dark whirlpool of melancholy. […]
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Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, Weather, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Writing & Journalism Resources on Mar 15th, 2007 No Comments »
This video is compiled from audioblogs and video coming into and leaving from New Orleans on Aug. 28-30, 2005, and photos from me, my colleagues and citizen journalists before, during and after the disaster. The music is the Tragically Hip’s “New Orleans is Sinking,” which was my mental background music that day, and “Orphans of […]
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Here’s a cool site that lets you test whether your site is being censored by the Great Firewall of China. Are you hot or not? Test it out . .. http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/
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Today is Twelfth Night . . . Epiphany . . . the first day of Mardi Gras (or Carnival, to the purists).
There’s an almost obscene irony in the air today, in this city whose mystique derives from historic juxtapositions of deep miseries and joys.
On Friday, two items illustrate this perfectly.
From MSNBC, commenting on the numbing […]
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11/8/2006 - 4 a.m.
I’m up much further into the wee hours than I’d intended to be. But my one chore - the last mile to go before I sleep - is to respond to a question posed by my internet journalism colleague Chris Lyden and his staff from Radio Open Source.
The election: Was […]
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Phoning this one in . . . from outside the Superdome on the afternoon of the Saints’ homecoming.
MP3 File
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As the body count piles up, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office seems intent on punishing defendants by inaction, rather than by proving its cases in court. Horror stories about untried defendants languishing in jail, and being released after serving more time behind bars than a conviction would have earned are becoming commonplace under […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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