tech4community efforts 2005 - winners & losers
07:20, 24 December 2005
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PC World, via YahooNews, has presented a list of Tech Winners and Losers of 2005, by Dan Tynan. I thought this particular winner/loser set was interesting, relating to both volunteerism, accessibility and customer service: (please note that the comments are Dan Tynan's, NOT mine):
Operating from the offices of Web host DirectNIC in downtown New Orleans, the Interdictor blog kept posting during the worst of Hurricane Katrina, powered by a 750-kilowatt diesel generator and a fiber-optic hookup. Blogger Michael Barnett and his colleagues slept in the air-conditioned room where they kept the servers, and blogged throughout the crisis. The Interdictor's live Webcam offered some of the first images of the city following the disaster, and the blog has continued to cover the region's recovery and rebuilding.
Though it hardly counts as the worst of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's transgressions during Katrina, the FEMA site where displaced people could apply for federal aid worked only with Internet Explorer and JavaScript. Relief workers using donated computers were forced to use the notoriously insecure browser to enter hurricane victims' personal information. Seems like everybody at FEMA was doing one heckava job.
Read the entire list of Tech Winners and Losers of 2005
