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Hurricane Katrina

K+4: The Day The Levees Failed

August 28, 2009

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Conference Time Katrina Style

August 19, 2009

Most of my posts over the next several days will be audio reports from Rising Tide IV, a conference founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the leveee failure that followed.  Here’s the short form:
After the flood that followed Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, the internet became a vital connection among dispersed New Orleanians, former New [...]

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Gmail: Five Years Later

April 1, 2009

Five years ago today Gmail debuted. Like many I viewed it as yet another web based email system and had little interest. Web mail had always been a clunky pain in the behind, useful when travelling but that was about it.
By the time July 2005 had arrived I was playing with it out of curiosity. [...]

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Computers and Writing: Lessons in Literacy from the New Orleans Blogosphere and the Composition Classroom

March 30, 2009

Essay by Daisy Pignetti, November 28, 2008 in response to Principles of a New Media Literacy, published by the Publius Project at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

In 2006 I wrote a piece about the burgeoning New Orleans blogosphere for the launch of Placeblogger.com. The crux of that essay, and of the [...]

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Web Uproar Costs Mencia in New Orleans

February 7, 2009

My jaw dropped when I saw an announcement that Carlos Mencia had been invited to ride as an honored guest in the Krewe of Orpheus, one of the bigger and more spectacular Mardi Gras Parades of the season. You see a mere month or so after Katrina devastated our city he came out with a [...]

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