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By Centinel | April 28, 2008
I’d just like to extend my thanks to our Sierra Madre readers and all the folks (especially Frazgo) who have contributed to the fire coverage thus far. It’s been an amazing community effort, with the real legwork being done by folks who were close to the fire. So, thanks to everyone who submitted info.
Also, many thanks to the sites that have linked to us and help keep the commenting up to date:
- LAist
- 91024 (now evacuated)
- LA Observed in the Morning Buzz
- The LAFD Blog
- Little Miss Attila
- InSierraMadre
- LA Metblogs
- 20-20 Hindsight
- The CrimeScene Blog
- thealtadenablog
- Gem City Images
- M-M-M-My Pomona
- Aaron Proctor
Many thanks to everyone and anyone I missed.
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April 28th, 2008 at 10:38 am
No need to thank me..seriously. Those other bloggers, though..did excellent work.
A journalist (no, not Frank Girardot) even said they did a better job than the PSN.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Excuse me!!! How about this poor old evacuated blogger!!!
April 28th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Hey, I agree, 91024 rocks! Directly in the line of fire, so to speak. Glad you’re safe, dude.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Sweet Meru! I knew I posted too quickly. Updated to include you. So sorry!
April 28th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Anyone else I missed, let me know and I’ll update the post to include you. No slights intended. Sorry again, 91024.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Thats ok. I often am forgotten. Until I open my big mouth!
April 28th, 2008 at 11:09 am
91024 is not a dude.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:26 am
This is the kind of situation where blogs thrive. It’s the painless, immediate, and ad hoc aggregation of all sorts of news. Lots of updates. Timely updates.
Unlike other forms of internet news media. A counter example: PSN has gotten better on their web site, but their “fire timeline” page is already out of date with the statement to the effect that “evacuations are due to end Monday morning at 6am unless fire intervenes.” Linkable? not bloody likely. Because I can pretty much guess that no one at PSN is going to update that particular page or link with the latest in the timeline. For a day or so. So screw the PSN Timeline page. Not linkworthy
The blogs work.
What I also love is how quickly things re-align as far as which blogs to go to. We’ve got Google to thank for that, as well as each other.
(Heck, just Friday night or early Saturday morning, I was gearing up to emerge from an unintended 1 month long blog hiatus. Adjusted some setting that had contributed to hiatus. Drove home from Altadena. Saw fire. Blogged. blog hiatus over. With a vengeance.)
Blogs can gear up, they can slow down. But thanks to well-written post titles and text, Google and technorati searches make it easy to find out who’s blogging, what’s the latest, what’s been posted. Click, read, link. repeat. In less than a day’s time, we’ve established THE Go To sites for this particular incident.
Once it ends, we go back to what we were until the next event galvanizes us and a new ad-hoc news dissemination begins.
(I first “covered” a fire on my blog back in Oct 2003 — the Old fire — it the first time that San Bernardino Mtns was threatened… and last fall, hire hit the area again, and our little mountain community of Green Valley Lake was, in fact, hit.)
Good job, Centinel, for being the post and comment magnet for this incident. It’s great to see — and participate in — what good blogs do best.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I love to find myself wrong! Sort of.
Pasadena Star News is posting updates to at least one news fire news story. (and yes, I just linked to it. heh)
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_9083865
There are time stamps on sections of this story. Go, PSN!
April 28th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Excellent comment, Susan. And my compliments to all the great work by everyone.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I mean, to all on the great work.
To everyone on all the great work.
To the people who do the work, the work that is great.
I can has object of preposition?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
You’ve managed to bring a team of citizen and professional journalists together - many with deeply personal interests in the story - to create the best source of information available. Thanks to everyone who was a part of it.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Anybody have any news? Things look fairly quiet now, but then they looked pretty quiet yesterday as well. The visit from Congressman Dreier seems to have brought with it an upgrade in the number and quality of aircraft, so I guess thanks for that. But once the sun goes down will we see the same outbreaks we’ve seen the previous two nights?
Nice to have blogs to show us lots of pictures, but frankly I’ve gotten sick of this situation and am looking forward to the end of it.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
@ Kelly, aka WCGB:
I’m having a failure of imagination here. What does the image of the LOLcat look like that goes with object of preposition?
hm. never mind. I just recalled neighbor cat who stood at Doc M’s sliding glass door looking in, with a portion of freshly-caught-lizard hanging out of mouth. I suppose that could pass for object of preposition, no?
kthxbai.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Yup…I think our motto ought to be “getting you the truth one key stroke at a time”.