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28 Dec 2006 No Comments
in NOLA
None of my words, nor any of the video or pictures you’ll eventually see, will really bring you how bad it really is.
9th Ward body thought to be Katrina victim
04 Dec 2006 3 Comments
in NOLA
Everyone, note the day that this post is being written: 4 Dec 2006.
Coroner Frank Minyard told the City Council last month that the Michoud area of eastern New Orleans had never been searched for bodies since Katrina and should be investigated as soon as possible.
Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005. That was 1 year, 3 months, and 5 days ago. After that long, you’d think it was buried under a ton of debris, something like the bodies being found at the World Trade Center, right?
Wrong.
The body was found Wednesday night in a yard at St. Maurice Avenue and North Robertson Street, chief coroner’s investigator John Gagliano said. (emphasis mine)
In a yard. Decomposed to the point that they have to call in an anthropologist to determine the victim’s gender. Their gender.
Link
Your Tax Dollars At Work
29 Oct 2006 No Comments
Polling is a pretty well-developed industry. The Usual Suspects may provide an incomplete data set, but they’re by and large an earnest bunch, who give recovery matters a lot of thought, and their responses as individuals count as much as anyone else’s. So what was made of their sacrifice of three hours of a beautiful Saturday morning? Not much, as far as I could tell. I’m not sure how the questions were crafted – I’m sure UNOP told the AmericaSpeaks people what they wanted to ask, but my impression of how AmericaSpeaks conducted the polling suggested that they were more involved than mere readers and tabulators, and anyway, I’d expect an organization that purports to specialize in citizen-led contribution to decision-making to have some expertise how best to craft that opportunity to contribute.
Read the rest to see the spectacular use of $3 million dollars.
More to come on America Speaks, I’m sure; nothing like being cloak-and-dagger with your funding ($2.3 of their $3 million came from as-yet unnamed private sources.)
Google Gadgets For Your Webpage
04 Oct 2006 No Comments
in General, NOLA, Technology
Interesting thing happened today, Google opened its gadgets for placement on any web page (it used to only work on their own properties). Why is this interesting? Because most of Google is open via their API.
As part of the wiki/blog at ThinkNOLA, this opens up a possibility for something that has generated a little discussion in the past, that of a community calendar. Now, with open gadgets and the Google API, ThinkNOLA could create and maintain a public Google calendar of events and publish the mini calendar on the site. Updates to the calendar automatically go on the mini-calendar, which could be placed anywhere. Thoughts?
NOLA Bloggers in the news
20 Sep 2006 2 Comments
in NOLA
Congrats to Karen, Bart, Michael, Alan, and Maitri for the write-up in the San Antonio Express-News. A nice summary of some of the activities going on in New Orleans.
Network Weaving: NOLA Networks
19 Sep 2006 No Comments
in NOLA
Kudos to Sarah Lewis, Operations Director for ThinkNOLA, and Valdis Krebs from Network Weaving for their continued work on making sense of all the New Orleans groups involved in the recovery. Valdis has posted the first network map of the more than 1,000 groups, people and orginizations that Sarah catalogued. You can see the map on Valdis’ blog.
Cool
01 Sep 2006 3 Comments
In a follow-up to a post on Boing Boing about New Orleans a year after the Big K, I dropped a link to point out that ThinkNOLA’s been around for a tad bit longer.
Damn if that suggestion didn’t make the front page (on a holiday weekend Friday, but hey, it’s better than a knitting blog).
They are Not OK
29 Aug 2006 4 Comments
The message from New Orleans is clear.
This country should be ashamed.
Say a few words for some of your countrymen today. It’s more than the grandstanding in the Gulf Coast will do for them. (Seems to be a pattern.)
Hey Ray!
24 Aug 2006 4 Comments
in NOLA, Politics, Uhm... yeah
Brilliant political strategy or stupidest thing you’ve heard in a year?
Ray Nagin to CBS Reporter (on camera)
“That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.”
*head to desk*
[via Ashley Morris]
Idiots
21 Aug 2006 2 Comments
As the anniversary of Katrina rolls over us, everyone is scrambling to do something “meaningful” to commemorate the event.
Like TalkLeft. Their brilliant idea?
Help water the bushes for the anniversary of Katrina.
Please send a bottle of water to:
President George Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500Put your return address as:
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
900 Convention Center Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70130
Har Har! Get it? Water the bushes? Yes, send your bottle of water to Washington, that’ll really help the hundreds of thousands of people still waiting for work to begin on their homes in New Orleans. Send your bottle of water and wallow in your sense of self satisfaction and wittiness. Send your bottle of water and then go back to concentrating on mid-term election analysis.
Someone else will pick up your slack. Do-nothing, feel-good, blogging; yeah!