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The writers for Metroblogging New Orleans reported on the anarchy days before any of the major news outlets did. They reportED on the dire needs and the terrible conditions and questioned the lack of reaction by city, state, and federal officials before others were aware of the extent of the crisis.
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They corrected the mainstream media in some of its reporting. While the media was reporting that the French Quarter of New Orleans was under 10 to 12 feet (3.7 m) of water, Metroblogging New Orleans reported that the French Quarter was not flooded and had remained mostly dry.
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was an online local media project founded by Jason DeFillippo and Sean Bonner, subsequently owned by Sean Bonner, Jason DeFillippo and Richard Ault, collectively Bode Media, Inc. Started in
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of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be
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in November 2003, the project included 57 city-specific blogs around the world, with close to 700 contributors. Contributors have included
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The first post on blogging.la was on November 30, 2003. When it started, it was intended as a group blog where a number of bloggers from
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could talk about the city as they saw it. Following the success of blogging.la, Bonner and DeFillippo considered expanding to
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affected the entire city and many people wrote about it. But one of their writers, who happens to work for
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Bonner and DeFillippo enlisted a team of bloggers for each of the four initial Metroblogging sites (
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in August 2005 Metroblogging New Orleans provided first hand accounts of the destruction.
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contributed to the relief efforts by extensively networking with
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