Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Following up
The tsunami story is everywhere but every once in a while something really unique pops up: here's a new disaster relief site from Digital Divide Network. There are lots of links here to news and places to go to help.
Kevin Sites, who has been doing some amazing blogging from Iraq, has now started posting from Asia, where he's covering the disaster.
Lonely Planet, the travel site, has a collection of tsuami links including links to missing persons sites.
Evelyn Rodriquez, a blogger from California, was a tsunami victim "just a flesh wound" in Thailand, and since she's returned home is posting lots of links to tsunami news.
Jeff Jarvis has been posting lots and lots of tsunami news links.
Then there's the story of a little girl named 'Tsunami'...
Here's a graphic comparing the tsunami dead to the World Trade tower deaths. (53 towers so far in Indonesia)...
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.