Gambit Weekly owner makes amphibious landing; report on community use of the web post-Katrina

Baton Rouge Advocate: "Clancy DuBos, co-owner of the Gambit Weekly, was among a group that made an "amphibious" landing on a sandbar in the mouth of Bayou St. John. Their tale was posted that evening on a homeowners association's Web message board. DuBos' post gave Lake Vista residents the kind of specific information they weren't finding anywhere else one day after the world learned that top federal officials were just becoming aware of thousands trapped at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center" (An update/check-in for Gambit Weekly employees).

The story shows the numerous ways the web was used post-Katrina to disseminate information post-Katrina: "Volunteer Webmaster and Metairie resident Ed Cassiere set up a message board through the St. Clement of Rome Catholic School Web site to keep school families and church neighbors in touch as they left and as they returned. Working from the Dallas area, Xavier University chemistry professor J.W. Carmichael Jr., director of premedical programs, used his personal Weblog to give his senior pre-med students, as well as others, official information about what they could do to keep their medical school applications moving forward. Metroblogging New Orleans, one of a series of arts and culture blogs dedicated to the nation's major cities and one previously devoted to off-beat spots in the city, became a connection point for Mid-City residents and bloggers dispersed by Katrina."