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Via Atrios, here's a good application of blogs to track current events. The topical blog Reconstruction Watch posts on the federal government efforts to rebuild New Orleans. It's tone is critical of the Bush Adminstration. I've seen a few more topical blogs like these emerge in the past few weeks, and they seem like a great idea, ad hoc media for a well-defined topic, rather than writing on an Indymedia site or a more general-purpose blog. It would be interesting if, like some IMCs, they attempted to produce a print product for affected audiences.

This reminds me, however, that I should monitor the New Orleans IMC for oppositional reconstruction news. The Austin IMC recently had an interesting feature on Common Ground, a collective aiding evacuees return to the 9th Ward.