The Internet Archive has pulled together a phenomenal resource about Hurricane Katrina. They have gathered 25 million web pages from 1500 websites from September 4 through October 17, 2005. I was a history major and I can’t think of a more valuable way to use the web than what the Internet Archive has done for Hurricane Katrina. For journalists, this provides a model as to how every story, local or national, should be approach on the web. We desperately need to move online storytelling beyond one-dimensional text articles and repurposed local TV news packages, toward three dimensional archives that provide a kaleidoscope of perspectives.
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