Last month we wrote about our experience working on the Slidell Hurricane Disaster Blog in a post titled, “Looking Back: Hurricane Katrina Blogging.” The blog was in a serious state of disrepair having remained dormant with no new posts since April and thousands of comment and trackback spam links. We took down the blog assuming it had, “outlived its usefulness as a resource.” We were wrong. The emails, phone calls, blog posts and IMs kept coming in such as, “you have broken the internet!” and “you dishonor the dead!” and many other messages that we choose not to repeat. Even Mike Arrington got in on the action.
We can take a hint and restored the blog earlier today. Had we realized how many people had a specific interest in the blog we would have never taken it down. Instead we might have invested more resources to keep it relevant. Over the next few weeks we plan to reinvent the blog, while honoring the effort previously made by the team.
For those of you living throughout the Gulf (or elsewhere) who want to be part of the team to develop and maintain a resource for past and future hurricane victims please contact Alexander Muse at 214.550.2003 and let us know how you can help. We need citizen reporters to help with the effort. Again, please accept our apology for our shortsightedness.
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August 3rd, 2006 at 4:41 pm
[...] It gives me great pleasure to say that the Slidell Hurricane Damage Blog is back up. Huzzah for the Big in Japan team for doing the right thing and restoring the site, a proper way to honor the contributions, links and readership of thousands of folks around the world. However they want to frame it is fine by me. I’m just pleased as punch the site is back up. It’s important that we not break the Web. It’s fundamental. Personal feelings aside, the Web is collectively authored and owned. Thanks to Adaptive Path, Mike Arrington, David Parmet, Dave Coustan, Chris Schultz and others who spoke out in favor of seeing a resource like the Slidell Hurricane blog maintained. Filed under: blogging, katrina, slidellhurricanedamageblog, slidell, disastercommunication, recovery2 | Tags: No Tags. [...]
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:49 pm
[...] For those of you living throughout the Gulf (or elsewhere) who want to be part of the team to develop and maintain a resource for past and future hurricane victims please contact Alexander Muse at 214.550.2003 and let us know how you can help. We need citizen reporters to help with the effort. Again, please accept our apology for our shortsightedness. Source: Disaster Blogging Part Deux! - Hurricane Katrina [Feed] [...]
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:52 pm
[...] For those of you living throughout the Gulf (or elsewhere) who want to be part of the team to develop and maintain a resource for past and future hurricane victims please contact Alexander Muse at 214.550.2003 and let us know how you can help. We need citizen reporters to help with the effort. Again, please accept our apology for our shortsightedness. Source: Disaster Blogging Part Deux! - Katrina [Feed] [...]