Google is coming under criticism for rolling back satellite imagery of New Orleans, replacing the images of post-Katrina New Orleans with older, pre-hurricane photos that show the city in a much cleaner condition than is the reality. In this article by The Age, Google says it is only offering the best images it has, and that there are many factors that went into the change:
Hurricane Katrina and the Dot Com Bubble
There has never been more information. And that’s exactly the problem. Too much information too quickly published is just as bad as too little.
Katrina Evacuee Interview: Charles Pizzo
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel and Neville spoke with Charles Pizzo …
News Sites See Traffic For Katrina Info
Whenever there’s world breaking news, news sites see more traffic. Hurricane Katrina was no different. Internet traffic for news sites in and around the Gulf Coast region saw huge increases in traffic.
Online Content and Hurricane Katrina
The Internet is changing the way people view the world, both in terms what’s out there and what’s not out there. With the prolific disaster along the Gulf Coast, FEMA requested media new organizations not show the dead in their coverage of the aftermath. As we’re finding out, bloggers and photographers are providing stories and images that probably won’t make the nightly news.
Website For Kids By Kids For Katrina Relief
In recent weeks, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, there were stories and images of horrific tragedy and great heroics as in any disaster. One story is perhaps meager but no less heroic effort on the part of some children based in Davie Florida. They’ve launched a website urging other children to help with the relief effort by donating their lunch money.
Online Community Aids in Katrina Relief Efforts
Along with our colleagues in other parts of the tech sector, the search engine community is starting to respond to the devastation Hurricane Katrina left along the northern Gulf coast.
Ask Jeeves Offers Katrina Smart Answer Section
As it’s been mentioned here many times since Hurricane Katrina struck last week, the search engine industry has been most supportive of the relief efforts related to the natural disaster.
Hurricane Katrina Drives Traffic to Blogs & News Search Engines
Hurricane Katrina made landfall at Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, at approximately 7:10 a.m. EDT on Aug. 29, 2005.
P2P Pirates Give Booty To Katrina Victims
The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) and a trade organization for peer-to-peer software providers, content rights holders, and service-and-support companies will offer P2P users a chance to help Katrina victim by buying and sharing music.