NEW YORK TIMES: Blogs Provide Raw Details From Scene of the Disaster:

For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs.

The so-called blogosphere, with its personal journals published on the Web, has become best known as a forum for bruising political discussion and media criticism. But the technology proved a ready medium for instant news of the tsunami disaster and for collaboration over ways to help.

Indeed. Nice to see people noticing. (Via Todd Pearson).