Blogging, along with every other NOLA blogger today, from the Rising Tide III conference... it's about time i got here, nearly 3 years late...
While my own blog-posting fell off after the storm, for various personal reasons, blogging in New Orleans really took off, and took on a life of it's own, slowly becoming a vitally important voice and force in the recovery of the city, citizen journalists acting as watchdogs and gadflies and really being responsible for effecting some of what small positive change has occurred around here in the last three years.
makes my pre-katrina blogging seem pretty superficial. (the old site is still around at http://www.unapologetic.com/blog/)
well, it's hard to stay quiet in the middle of a chorus, and being here at Rising Tide and surrounded by so many people whose writing and action i so admire, i'm inspired to get back to this blogging thing and see if there's anything important that i can contribute to the conversation that is happening all around me.
Right now I'm listening to John Barry, author of the book Rising Tide, discuss coastal erosion at the mouth of the Mississippi and all the factors that have contributed to the current state of our coastline. This is an issue I've been familiar with since I was a child (literally, when I was 12, as a volunteer in the Louisiana Swamp section of the Audubon Zoo, I was getting people to sign petitions to save the wetlands) and I have learned an incredible amount about the mechanics of what's happening to us here. Barry is incredibly well informed... definitely need to read his book.
more later.
While my own blog-posting fell off after the storm, for various personal reasons, blogging in New Orleans really took off, and took on a life of it's own, slowly becoming a vitally important voice and force in the recovery of the city, citizen journalists acting as watchdogs and gadflies and really being responsible for effecting some of what small positive change has occurred around here in the last three years.
makes my pre-katrina blogging seem pretty superficial. (the old site is still around at http://www.unapologetic.com/blog/)
well, it's hard to stay quiet in the middle of a chorus, and being here at Rising Tide and surrounded by so many people whose writing and action i so admire, i'm inspired to get back to this blogging thing and see if there's anything important that i can contribute to the conversation that is happening all around me.
Right now I'm listening to John Barry, author of the book Rising Tide, discuss coastal erosion at the mouth of the Mississippi and all the factors that have contributed to the current state of our coastline. This is an issue I've been familiar with since I was a child (literally, when I was 12, as a volunteer in the Louisiana Swamp section of the Audubon Zoo, I was getting people to sign petitions to save the wetlands) and I have learned an incredible amount about the mechanics of what's happening to us here. Barry is incredibly well informed... definitely need to read his book.
more later.
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