UPDATES to some recent posts

Time for another round of updates. These updates can also be found at the end of the original posts:

* The Oct. 16, 2007 post headlined "Live from Ireland" profiled Damien Blake, a 25-year-old town councillor and blogger in Letterkenny, Ireland. His blog is here. Damien was just about to get on a plane heading to the U.S., on a visit sponsored by the Irish Institute at Boston College. The visit had quite an impact on him. Read about it here. (A fellow participant offers some fascinating views on the U.S. here.)

* The Oct. 23, 2007 post was headlined "Blogging the Space Shuttle launch." The NASA Launch Blog team has consented to be profiled, and we will publish an interview with them sometime before or near the scheduled launch of Atlantis in early December. 

* The Oct. 25, 2007 post is headlined "Cutting through the smoke: Why no blogs among San Diego government agencies?"  The blog at New Communications Review reports that social networking sites were all over the California wildfires:

The Los Angeles Fire Department posted frequent updates and information like tips for donating to the fire victims on Twitter. More than 800 photos of the wildfires are available to view on Flickr.com, and San Diego’s TV station News 8 replaced its original site with a rolling news blog linking to YouTube videos of its key reports and Google Maps.

So news media turned their Web sites into blogs, essentially, and individuals posted photos on the Net that told powerful stories in their own right. All valuable. My point in the original post is that government blogs could have and should have been a bigger part of the mix as well. Especially from mayors and other top leaders.

The L.A. Fire Department also has its own blog, which continues to include all kinds of important post-fires coverage. This blog has received kudos all over the place. Municipalist definitely needs to contact those guys for a profile.

Comments

[Brian Humphrey]

Thanks for your kind words regarding the Los Angeles Fire Department News & Information blog!

Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service,

Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department