Taking a quick break from gardening and checked Twitter. I saw a lot of tweets around how people are using social media to track Hurricane Gustav and prepare to react to needs generated around the storm. Here are a few (Updated Sunday Aug 31, 4pm PDT, 6:20 pdt, 7:40 pm PDT, Updated September 1 9:35am):
- Vacuum – Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: Gustav evacuation map
- Wayne Sutton tracking via Friend Feed
- Wayne Sutton’s Ustream feed
- Chris Brogan’s Tweets – lots of Gustav
- Andy Carvin’s Tweets
- Mark Mayhew who is tweeting from NO
- Gustav Group on Ning
- Twitter tracking for Gustav
- Mississippi Public Broadcasting updates on their page on Gustav
- Grumpicus Hurricane Maps
- Gustav Information Center
- Gustav Wiki for coordination of data and response – YOU CAN HELP IMPROVE THIS WIKI!
- Storm Tools – Ning site for Journalists about Gustav
- Gustav tags on Delicious
- Gustav Radio Reference Wiki (coordinating scanners and HAM/Amateur radio operators)
- Cerrado sets up a mobile updater for Gustav news http://ventana.cerado.com/gustav08/ – Mobile info center
- http://gustavpets.com/ – Pets and hurricane information
- collecting links of where/how to help (lower part of blog post, major disaster relief orgs rather than individual grassroots)
- Chicago News Tribune aggregating Gustav news and cover bloggers coverage
- Sun Sentinal’s page tracking Gustav (interesting to see how media is far more interactive this time)
- Gustav Cam
- Aggregated news feed (7:40pm Sunday night)
- Hurricane Gustav Support on Facebook (8pm Sunday nighty)
- Gustav on CraigsList
- Doc Searls is tracking too (Sunday 8:40 pm)
- Mahalo has a Gustav page, aggregating resources
- Tweets from NOLA.com, the online arm of the New Orleans Times-Picayune
- Tweets from the Red Cross
- ….from Lafayette, LA
- Twitter stream from the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise-Journal
- Millsaps College in Jackson MS just started a Twitter stream since they’re in the path of the storm
- World Wide Help blog has a resources post on Gustav.
- The ComputerWorld magazine blog now has a Gustav resources page. (these last few via Every Dot Connects) Sunday 8:50 pm
- Gustav Tracker – if you need help or let others know you are safe via Cell phone text message (SMS) (updated Monday 9:35 am PDT)
- Sites I’m tagging Gustav and Social_media on delicious
- Newscred’s aggregation of Gustav news (Monday 10:30 am PDT)
- Gustav bloggers (Monday, 3:30 pm pdt)
- And finally, a quick screen grab on Twitter as an example of the activity
