The reason I mention YatPundit and Nolanotes is that those were two people that I found to be very insightful and witty, qualities I look for in people I follow on Twitter. YatPundit was very helpful because he would watch all of the TV stations and keep up with press conferences and then distill the information into nice little twitter messages. It was much less stressful for me to check in with Yatpundit's twitter stream than to sit by the TV or radio. And, of course, once we lost power sitting by the TV was out of the question. The radio worked (on batteries) but it was too time consuming to fiddle with the dials. YatPundit became my official broadcast station, along with the few other people I followed on Twitter. To follow someone just go to their Twitter page and click on the 'Follow' button. When you are following several people their tweets all show up in one place so you can monitor everyone you are following very easily.

Stop by the market this Saturday for a cup of coffee (our treat!) and music by Washboard Chaz, swap storm/evacuation stories and do a little shopping to start restocking the fridge. With the thought that markets are just as much about community as they are about food, the CCFM will be open this Saturday, September 6. We also plan to have market Tuesday, September 9. We’re still touching base with vendors to see how everyone fared and who's able to join us at market this Saturday, but reports are starting to come in from the field...

on media (new, old, social and broadcast) in Gustav

Maybe that's why the young owners of Dick and Jenny's restaurant -- a former corner grocery and po'boy shop, in a bargeboard cottage on Tchoupitoulas Street -- have tried to replicate the past.

The Detroit newsletter slash website Metromode reports that SRT opens Ann Arbor office, more than triples its employees. Although, it looks as though it was a reprinted press release, the notion of third spaces is one that I’m pursuing with coworking me

Whatever the answer, New Orleans was not defined by its spirit of innovation in the decades preceding Hurricane Katrina. But the flood that changed everything two years ago has changed that too: Today, by accident and by necessity, this city is awash in i

The purpose of this page is to show house plans and floor plans of the most common types of Louisiana's historic houses.

alan on rebuilding new orleans

time magazine special on new orleans

At the behest of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association (HCNA) and the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB), the Bayou Bienvenue-Central Wetland Unit practicum will study the feasibility of rehabilitating the wetland and the cypress forest

The destruction of New Orleans and many of its neighboring parishes is very much on Burke's mind in the new Robicheaux novel, "The Tin Roof Blowdown." That destruction and the reluctance of our government to rush to the area's aid emerge as crimes so nigh

family displaced to Ann Arbor by Katrina supported for 18mo by a church, still needs ongoing help

The unit of Entergy Corp. that provides electricity and natural gas service to New Orleans said Wednesday that it will quit maintaining the city's street lights at the end of the month.

The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh has donated to the Louisiana Children's Museum a permanent installation of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: A Hands-On Exhibit!"

Robbie Prepas, a certified nurse-midwife, helped deliver five babies in the New Orleans airport during Hurricane Katrina. Hoping never to experience anything similar in Orange County, Prepas is teaming up with another local nurse-midwife to educate the p

commencement speech to Xavier post-Katrina. "I could talk at length about perseverance, but this is a class that was forced to scatter to schools across the country at the beginning of your senior year, leaving everything you knew behind while you waited

Our brand of Hindus considers it a sin to sell food and can only give it away, so cooking for friends is more than just a culinary exercise. It’s spiritual, like soul food, a concept Cousin Pat and Gentilly Girl seem to get.

photographs of new orleans through the eyes of its children

an account of a night in jail at the new orleans central lockup

Google's popular map portal has replaced post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery with pictures taken before the storm, leaving locals feeling like they're in a time loop and even fueling suspicions of a conspiracy.

Organizers are determined that the 5 p.m. Wednesday tribute to Helen Hill at Ann Arbor's Firefly Club won't be morose. "She was too silly, too much fun for that," says festival director Christen McArdle, who has commissioned new 16mm prints of Hill's work

Sixty volunteers from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, the Baptist Campus Ministry at Louisiana State University, Arkansas Baptist Builders and the Times-Picayune newspaper displayed both flexibility and cooperation Feb. 17 as they helped homeown

ernie notices that 8m people are on linkedin and that there are some very interesting positions being posted there. good practices like keeping up with your friends changes. facebook for grownups.

a rousing discussion of the failures of the recovery process in New Orleans

re the blog 'Squandered Heritage'

on the new york times coverage of new orleans blogger-led marches on city hall

bart's new orleans speech protesting violence in the streets, on cnn

3000 new orleans residents march on city hall to protest violence in the streets. editor b on cnn.

neighborhood group in New Orleans, includes plans for cottages and houses in the local style. well illustrated.

new orleans architecture weblog

photo weblog documenting demolition of houses and buildings in New Orleans after Katrina & working for architectural preservation

watch the want ads to figure out what's going to happen next

bellsouth decides to rescind donation of a police hq to new orleans because n.o. sets up free muni wifi.

on building a virtual New Orleans

broadcasting internet only, no money in the bank, no equipment, no transmitter

20 students to take a class from a Tulane prof

back online on the Internet only via WFMU

post-Katrina neighborhood by neighborhood information on ThinkNOLA

organizing efforts at relief via wiki - as seen successfully done for Xavier U

group blog on NO - now covering Katrina