For those of you who don’t read Evelyn Rodriguez on a regular basis you might not realize she was caught in the Tsunami last year and you might also not realize she’s one of the best writers on the blogosphere. Anyway, today she wrote about Peter Drucker (the management guru who died recently) and also the Emergency Syndication panel at Syndicate.
You won’t find this stuff in Memeorandum, but she’s worth reading.
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On the disaster topic, I’ve been following several friends as they visit New Orleans. Buzz Bruggeman visited Ernie the Attorney a few days ago. Ernie’s post is just stunning. It’s among the most gripping writing I’ve read this year.
Dave Winer just arrived in New Orleans and is doing his unique brand of podcasting and reporting. I’m sitting here in building 18 of Microsoft’s headquarters listening to his interview with Janet, a woman who lost her house. Ernie the Attorney lives in New Orleans and is doing wonderful journalism about what it’s like there. I remember spending the day with Ernie in happier times. We saw a concert and he showed me around town.
All of this stuff is magazine quality. Just stunning the imagery and misery that drips through these ASCII characters. Can we have a conversation on blogs? I don’t know, but these made me cry. So there.
Over on MSNBC they put up this picture story where you can see some before and after pictures shot by John Wilkerson. The changes are stunning.
Who is doing the best Web-based journalism after Katrina? Or the Tsunami?
Scobleizer 
Thanks Robert. Coming up on the one-year mark December 26th I’m hoping that the survivors and aid workers and others have lessons to share with Katrina folks and Stan folks and Pakistan folks and so many others hit by disaster this year. That’s one of the main aims of the two-month project to Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.
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Thanks Robert. Coming up on the one-year mark December 26th I’m hoping that the survivors and aid workers and others have lessons to share with Katrina folks and Stan folks and Pakistan folks and so many others hit by disaster this year. That’s one of the main aims of the two-month project to Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.
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Ahhh nothing like disasters that have killed thousands of people to bring up the ole eternally pointless ‘citizen journalism’ vs. ‘regular journalists’ debate. Wheeeee. And where’s Wilma?
How so crass.
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Ahhh nothing like disasters that have killed thousands of people to bring up the ole eternally pointless ‘citizen journalism’ vs. ‘regular journalists’ debate. Wheeeee. And where’s Wilma?
How so crass.
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Unfortunately both the pros and the Winers are drawn to the more dramatic New Orleans story, while the Mississippi Gulf Coast continues to go forgotten and overlooked.
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Unfortunately both the pros and the Winers are drawn to the more dramatic New Orleans story, while the Mississippi Gulf Coast continues to go forgotten and overlooked.
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I agree with you on Evelyn’s writing.
Brad has a good point, though. These folks are doing what the professionals are doing: going to the places that have had the most noise. Where weblogging could shine is the folks who live in areas that aren’t in the spotlight, such as the rest of the Gulf coast, and who can provide a perspective you can’t see in the Time or Post.
In other words, Dave Winer is not being a weblogger by going to New Orleans.
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I agree with you on Evelyn’s writing.
Brad has a good point, though. These folks are doing what the professionals are doing: going to the places that have had the most noise. Where weblogging could shine is the folks who live in areas that aren’t in the spotlight, such as the rest of the Gulf coast, and who can provide a perspective you can’t see in the Time or Post.
In other words, Dave Winer is not being a weblogger by going to New Orleans.
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