Carrying the Lantern

Pod Shack has produced a 30-second public service announcement for the American Red Cross and is making it available for podcasters to download to insert into their podcasts. The PSA provides information on the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

Earlier today, podcaster Wichita Rutherford challenged podcasters to podcast for hurricane victims.

- Posted by William A. Riski - 10:27:52 PM - comment []

Bill R.: There is so much coverage of this disaster, and for now it's all appreciated. So many lives touched, lost, changed. Below is my abridged version of a BoingBoing post. Click through to the audio MP3 file of CNN's Jeanne Meserve description of what she saw. You have to hear her voice to appreciate the humanity of it all.

Katrina: media evacuates, there is no grid, damage map?. Xeni Jardin:

BB reader Kathryn Cramer points us to a before-and-after photo comparison of the area of New Orleans where a levee broke last night. Link

Reader comment: BB reader Ian Sewell points us to an audio file of CNN's Jeanne Meserve, reporting about what she witnessed yesterday in the Katrina-damaged zone. Journalists "are sometimes wacky thrill seekers" in hurricanes, Meserve said. "But when you stand in the dark, and you hear people yelling for help and no one can get to them, it's a totally different experience." This page contains a 10MB MP3. [Boing Boing]

- Posted by William A. Riski - 10:08:09 PM - comment []