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I'm beginning to think that blogs and services like Flickr are going to be key community (re)building tools. They tell stories, the human side, the personal, the local, the specific. Take a look at these as examples. I know hundreds more are sprouting every hour. Is anyone aggregating these in any way?

From "slight clutter" on Flickr - Hurricane Katrina - a photoset on Flickr. These images show us the urgency of community (re)building.

In Exile, "Blogging for New Orleans with Abram Himelstein" - staying in Houston with family. Abram says of himself, "These are other things you should know about me. Until Saturday, I ran The Neighborhood Story Project at John McDonogh Senior High School, on Esplanade Ave. in New Orleans. " This guy is a community builder.

Another Houston Chronicle sponsored blog, the DomeBlog, "Blogging the evacuees at the Astrodome and Convention Center." This one feels more like reporting and less personal storytelling. The latest entry this evening talks about organizing "village like" services around the key evacuee residence centers. Like I said... community building.

Finally, an event-sort-of-related blog with an express goal of keeping the people affected by Katrina in people's view, even after the news cameras go hom. Carnival of Hurricane Relief (CoHR): "The goal of this new blog carnival is to keep the plight of the victims of Katrina in the public’s mind, to encourage continuing and long-term support, and to show progress as it’s made...Posts should be related somehow to encouraging long-term support of relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the Gulf Coast;" Visibility is part of community (re)building.

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