Blogging Disasters

Blogs Provide Raw Details From Scene of the Disaster shows just how useful weblogs can be in times of emergency.

Further, weblogs are a way that we can avoid problematic drops of reporting within the traditional media. The Asian Tsunami: Think Globally, Locally, Journalistically has some good points on this.

But I wonder how long it will take the World Live Web to stop covering the story. Webloggers are disproportionately biased in this regard because of where they are and what the interests they have are.

Considering the death toll is about 8 times that of 9/11 - will the coverage last 8 times longer? Interesting to consider.

When I wrote ICT Infrastructure Robustness, this was one of the points I tried - and apparently failed - to make to Caribbean and Latin American ICT practitioners. Maybe someday they will see the benefits.