Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo and two of its biggest rivals, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, previously have come under attack for censoring online news sites and Web logs, or blogs, that include content that China's communist government wants to suppress.NYT View full entry
More Katrina mapping and satellite photographycccarto.com View full entry
This NYT article reminds us to be mindful of accommodating too many temporary solutions in the wake of Katrina, which often times end up all too permanent and substandard after funding and long term vision has evaporated. Libeskind and Ban talk about their shelter designs and a new wave of... View full entry
Tom Reilly of Gould Evans Associates in Phoenix, has created his own Katrina response database "to provide a simple clearinghouse for those in the profession who may be in need of resources and for those firms who have extra space and facilities." It's great to see other efforts trying to provide... View full entry
"The fields of Europe could soon take on a shimmering silver colour as farmers grow giant grasses to try to mitigate the effects of global warming." Grass is an "energy crop" - so what's not to love? View full entry
With New Orleans in ruins, hydrological engineers are looking to new technologies to bolster aging earthen levee systems. Wired l related View full entry
Venice, Holland, London, Bangladesh, Japan... the experience with past floods an invaluable design lesson? Learn how nature works or make nature learn? NYTimes. | Also, is Houston, Tx, poised for a boom? And, Halliburton stock up to 52-week highs last week. View full entry
google does it again, a new search engine, where you might as well take a shot at winning movie tickets or itunes gift certificates while you search. over 8,500 winners so far (not me yet). View full entry
Remember the bankrupt American Center in Paris? The conspicuously absent Gehry building at his Guggenheim retrospective? Regardez la Cinémathéque française. With two impending demolitions and after the damage in Biloxi, chalk one up for the FOG (and for the French who... View full entry
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From Black Cat Bone, a Mississippi blog that is covering the impact of Katrina on cultural institutions The artists from the states affected by Hurrican Katrina have given freely and generously of their talents for many generations; these same artists have helped to make the world a more... View full entry
A leading Frank Lloyd Wright scholar fears that two of the Chicago architect's earliest homes, both on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. trib View full entry
The polemic Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square will be occupied again from the 15th September. This time the work belongs to Marc Quinn and it is a white marble of Alison Lapper pregnant. The spin is on, there is a book about Ms Lapper coming out as well. Here is the latest article on the story... View full entry
Anyone with room to spare, be it for one person or 200, can easily upload and update shelter information to this websitewww.katrinashelter.com View full entry
Dubbed as "Architectural conjecture, urban speculation, and landscape futures," the BLDG Blog recently takes on Katrina with a kind of thought wander. View full entry