September 27, 2005 – 10:38 pm
Too important to just link in a post, Barclay Barrios’s “Blogs, A Primer: A Guide to Weblogs in the Classroom and in Research for Compositionists, Rhetoricians, Educators, &c.” will be also added to the blogroll for ease of future reference.
September 27, 2005 – 9:22 pm
Pasting this in from the Chronicle’s Wired Campus Newsletter: Sometimes Blogs Just Ain’t Enough: It’s fast becoming old hat for colleges to use student-penned blogs as admissions tools, but give the University of Dayton credit for trying to keep the tactic fresh. Campus officials have managed to cram a few more high-tech fillips onto their [...]
September 24, 2005 – 11:16 pm
After a day of writing about blogs and somehow still not finished, I just visited Joe Trippi’s site and read about this blog and this book: BLOG!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture On the Blog SIG listserv, Clancy’s been sharing some good links to “The perfect blog entry” and [...]
September 24, 2005 – 3:54 pm
Great news just in from my Texan friend: Obviously, the worst of the storm missed Galveston but we were still a bit nervous about wind damage. Our talented artist friend, Ellie, stayed in Galveston and was kind enough to send us a text message today to let us know that our “house is fine, front [...]
September 23, 2005 – 9:55 pm
get blogs back on the brain, here is the link to the next BloggerCon in Greensboro, NC.
September 23, 2005 – 6:30 pm
4:47 P.M. – London Avenue Canal levee breached; six to eight inches of water in Gentilly neighborhood. This is the one that caused the 10-feet of water to rise on my street last time. I’ve already had nightmares about returning to my mold-infested house. Why is it getting worse by the minute?????
September 23, 2005 – 1:34 pm
OK I managed to get my academic focus back and will force myself to keep it all weekend now that I’ve been given a deadline for the blog article, but also just heard word that the levees in NOLA have broken again. Refreshing the WWL-TV blog throughout the day. And I’m pasting in portion of [...]
September 19, 2005 – 8:18 pm
So I’m sick now. Sinus pressure everywhere. Had to take the day off work today, even though the editing list is still over 200. I also had to withdraw from a class today for the first time ever. Cannot concentrate for the life of me. The first day of school was the day Katrina hit–I [...]
September 19, 2005 – 3:00 pm
That’s one of the tag lines for my new favorite perfume: Bond No. 9 with my fav scent being Riverside Drive.
September 17, 2005 – 6:07 pm
Another great find from the Online Communities and Identities directed study group–chronicling the edits made to the wikipedia page on the London bombings. Here is another video I just found on MN Stories about a paramedic’s 7 days in NOLA. And speaking of MN, I’ve been meaning on posting/gushing about how perfect of a boyfriend [...]
September 11, 2005 – 11:15 am
I watched CBS Sunday Morning and will add those links later but here is a CNN profile on Lt. Honore. And his points made here are exactly what I’ve been wanting to hear about NOLA: It is secure, we walk around without any issues. Why the hell are you trying to make that the issue, [...]
September 10, 2005 – 10:01 pm
Finally getting to some teaching and reading so I won’t write long, but had to put these links up for future reference: 1. NPR’s Katrina Web Log 2. Bloggers Blog’s Katrina and the Blogs 3. Another New Orleans Flood Map, which says that my street is under 1o-feet of water. 4. Dave Winer’s blog with [...]
September 10, 2005 – 12:46 am
I posted a few days ago about my ballet teacher Gayle and that she was now the only person I knew of that stayed in NOLA. After days of no news, I was forwarded this email of her “odyssey.” The writer of the email is a woman named Olga who is quite a character and [...]
September 9, 2005 – 9:12 pm
Ok, yet another reason to be annoyed as hell with FEMA. I’m trying apply online for my parents [via my Mac Powerbook] and got this message: In order to use this site, you must have JavaScript Enabled and Internet Explorer version 6. Download it from Microsoft or call 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) to register. Whatever!
September 9, 2005 – 5:39 pm
At work and trying to get outta here but wanted to update the blog with a few tidbits and links: I’ve been wondering how NOLA’s former WWL-TV weatherman, David Bernard, was reacting to everything and found this report in the Miami Herald. Got in touch with my friend Paul and he and his whole family [...]
September 8, 2005 – 12:52 pm
I have been thrilled and overwhelmed with the amount of people I’ve heard from during this time but sadly only have the time to point them to the blog. After a weekend offline, then having the parents with me, going back to work at FADV yesterday, and trying to catch up on all the schoolwork [...]
September 6, 2005 – 11:58 pm
I’ve linked to Preston before, although I just realized I haven’t added him to my blogroll on this site, but I had to share his post on it “hitting home.” Also just got an email from him about the “Save New Orleans Cocktail Hour!” On Monday, September 12th, between the hours of 5:00pm and 7:00pm, [...]
September 6, 2005 – 11:13 am
I posted the link to his essay earlier but just read it and had to paste in this paragraph: Those of us who have migrated to the coasts of the country from its often maligned middle like to view our hometowns as time capsules. We fault them for being too fixed and too rigid, but [...]
September 6, 2005 – 10:51 am
I’ve never been more proud of my mayor… Trying to find more links to his appearances, but like I’ve said in other posts, I’ve been overwhelmed with emails and reading news sites that I can’t keep track, especially since I took nearly 3 days offline. EDITED to include this open letter from the NO Times-Picayune [...]
September 6, 2005 – 12:52 am
Have got to get to bed and have so much I want to include in posts tomorrow, but wanted to comment on my comments section and the fact that I just heard from 2 cousins in Peru that I’ve never met before! Lots of other friends I haven’t heard from in a long time have [...]
September 5, 2005 – 2:48 pm
EDITED TO INCLUDE LINKS: My parents made it to Tampa yesterday and I was in Cocoa Beach with friends from DC. My leasing office let them in and AC and I made it here. Poor AC–imagine meeting your girlfriend’s parents under these circumstances. My dad can’t stop crying and we’re all just trying to hold [...]
September 2, 2005 – 11:17 pm
Heard about this site this morning but could not get to it til now, but here it is. I’m not sure what this blogger’s plans are for getting out of NOLA, but this is his first hand account which began with this innocent post: We’re on the 10th and 11th floor of a corporate high [...]
September 2, 2005 – 6:21 pm
After getting in touch with the hotel where my parents were, only to find out that they weren’t there anymore, I was starting to flip out then just got this email from my brother in CA: Hi Sis: Our parents have been found!!! Hooray!!! Just a bit shaken up. They left on Tuesday and made [...]
September 2, 2005 – 2:39 pm
Just got this from the Association of Internet Researchers listserve: One Web site, www.scipionus.com, is combating the confusion by encouraging users to annotate a Google Map of New Orleans with information about specific locations. Collectively, the community is creating a collaborative map Wikipedia. Anyone with something to add can enter a street address and leave [...]
