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 […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, Religion & Faith, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Crime & Terror on Jul 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Within days after Katrina, the story began to unfold about the ongoing horror under way inside some of New Orleans' hospitals. Email from the sister of a doctor trapped in one of the hospitals told of the frantic race to get critically ill patients above the flood waters . . . fear of drug-starved looters […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati on Jul 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Here's coverage of one of the panels I attended recently, hosted by Media Giraffe, on the future of journalism, the internet, and so-called "citizen journalists." This is quick coverage of a panel that included Jeff Jarvis, Helen Thomas and other luminaries. And me, courtesy of The Editor's Weblog, an industry news site:
Read the coverage
Helen Thomas drew […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane on Jul 5th, 2006 No Comments »
My daughter Sarah (with whom I got my first tattoo, as described below), continues payback to Dad for the long days of anguish he endured, imagining her crushed and drowned during Katrina.
This originally was a "Voices of Katrina" post in my NOLA.com weblog, but I've had her record an audioblog for podcast posterity.
Listen to Sarah's Tale (mp3 download)
Posted in New Orleans, Signs of the Apocalypse, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Crime & Terror on Jun 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Meanwhile, early Saturday, New Orleans awoke to the sound of a gun-battle, an ambush and execution that left five teen-agers dead in a "gruesome" manner that shook veteran police officers.
This quintuple slaughter, the worst single violent episode in possibly several decades, is the latest wave in a murder rate that has soared since April. Before […]
Posted in New Orleans, Weather, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane on Jun 19th, 2006 No Comments »
It's official: hurricane season 2006 is upon us. It was less than two weeks old when Tropical Storm Alberto meandered into the Gulf of Mexico.
Time has run out, and there is little sense in any quarter that New Orleans is any more prepared - any more "fixed" - to deal with a major storm than it […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media on May 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
APRIL 22 - Today's historic municipal election in New Orleans was another storm battering the weary residents of New Orleans. Unfortunately it appears that storm will continue for another month, as incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin and well-heeled challenger Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu battle it out in a runoff.
The fact is, New Orleanians had little clear choice […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane on Apr 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.' Old men forget; yet all shall […]
Posted in New Orleans, Signs of the Apocalypse on Mar 10th, 2006 No Comments »
The master of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, appears at the balcony today to pass along two Federal Bulls.
The vicious immigrant gang MS-13 has been targeted for crackdown, apparently under the direction of DHS, as the terroristic multinational bangers threaten our security. Hail Chertoff! Morituri te salutamus!
And, Chertoff warns, flocks of bird-flu-tainted fowl […]