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Mainstream media notes hurricane bloggers

Reuters:

While big media covered the mass destruction brought by Hurricane Katrina with helicopter images and satellite weather maps, blogs have been telling stories with similar force, but on a much more personal level.

Linking to the Internet's global computer network with a combination of old-school and newfangled technologies -- namely backyard diesel generators, mobile phones and stubborn will -- several web sites related often graphic first-hand accounts and snapshots.

"Trees down everywhere. Neighbor (has) 3 trees on house. Southern yacht club burning to the ground," said the Gulfsails blog (gulfsails.blogspot.com), launched by Troy Gilbert as a local sailing and boat racing resource that turned into a blow-by-blow of Katrina's effect on a New Orleans neighborhood.

More and more, bloggers, who frequently post short messages on Internet Web Sites, are becoming an information source, particularly for fast developing stories in remote areas. Blogs gained prominence during the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, when conservative and liberal writers became regulars on the campaign trail.

The audience for the narratives is growing. According to comScore Media Metrix, more than 1.7 million online searches were conducted on August 29 containing the words "Hurricane" and/or "Katrina," a more-than-tenfold increase over the daily average during the five days ending August 26.

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