Fire Bloggers, Pt. II
Following some links from my comments below, I found that the San Diego bloggers have answered the call of the fire. It looks like Joe Crawford is the man behind San Diego Bloggers. He's made a list of more than 50 blogs that have posted about the fires. Though still no way to check them all to which ones have posted anything on say, the Paradise Fire.

And I say that not to take a swipe at SD Bloggers. Since the economy still sucks and companies aren't throwing money around, it takes a real crisis of sorts for people to develop answers for needs, rather than idle wants.

San Diego Joe points out the San Diego Union Tribune has created a blog-formatted file for fire updates. "Note 'blog' in the url," he says. It's a great idea. A lot of newsrooms have files like this they use internally and it's smart to make it available publicly.

It would be extremely cool if they had someone reading all the blogs and coverage from other papers and wrapping it up in a blog the way Jeff Jarvis was doing with blackout coverage in August for the Advance.net sites. (Though I can't find it archived anywhere, Jeff.)

This is an incomplete thought, but I'll stop for now and pick it up later.
- posted by Amy @ 10/28/2003 08:59:00 AM