Weather porn v. weather journalism
In recent years, the term "weather porn" has been coined to describe the, uh, orgy of overcoverage often devoted to weather events. Lotsa heat, not so much light, to coin a phrase.
Even allowing for the fact that Hurricane Katrina likely will end up the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, much of the coverage hasn't been all that informative.
But this post at Kathryn Cramer's blog shows how bloggers, using the (relatively) new Web tools Google Earth and Flickr to illustrate storm damage in the New Orleans area better than most of what you've seen on TV or on the TV networks' Web sites. They're bringing light to a hot topic.