Al's Morning Meeting

I built this website over the weekend to pull together many resources on a single page.

Twitter is a cool place to get instant information as the storm unfolds. One of the better things about Twitter is that it is so easy to Tweet by phone rather than by a Web connection, which, in a hurricane, can be hard to come by.

Here is a great example of what Twitter does very well. It can feed aggregator sites that monitor the storm.

Here is how I monitor Twitter during breaking news. Go to Monitter.com then type the words you want to follow into the boxes at the top. For example, I entered New Orleans, Hurricane and Gustav in the boxes and Monitter starts following every Tweet using those words. It is a GREAT tool. See the Gustav Twitter monitor.

This is, by far, the most active New Orleans Twitter. It is an excellent way to stay on top of minute- by-minute information from NOLA.

Chicago Tribune reporters are using Twitter to cover Gustav.

Flickr is loaded with photos from people who have already faced the storm in the islands and people who are preparing for Gustav in the U.S. 

WWL Radio has lots of eyewitness accounts in its nonstop coverage.

NOLA's My Storm blog is running well. It is a place for anybody to publish storm alert information. One of the photos that struck me most is a picture of a local temple hauling Torahs away in a pickup truck as part of their evacuation.

Here are YouTube Gustav videos.

When you think about  it, Ham Radio Operators were sort of our first social networkers. They have a HurricaneWatch site that you can listen to LIVE online.