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N.Z. Bear has Hurricane Katrina: Blog for Relief Day Thursday, September 1.

A day of blogging focused on raising awareness of and funds for relief efforts to aid those affected by Hurricane Katrina. See here for more information, and here for the TTLB Katrina topic page.

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Flap will resume blogging on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina after a night’s rest.

If you beat me up in the morning – all of you European and East Coast folks, go over to my charity, Catholic Charities and contribute a few bucks.

Flap knows you will be glad you did.

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Thanks Chris!

We are all pulling for the city of New Orleans and all of Hurricane Katrina’s victims in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama et al.

And don’t forget Flap’s Charity here.

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New Orleans residents are rescued by helicopter from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005 in New Orleans.

A few days ago Hugh Hewitt and Glenn Reynolds suggested a day when bloggers could support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

Although the loss of life appears to have been low, the scale of the misery that will follow Katrina is almost unimaginable.

The miles and miles of submerged homes, sunken cars and damaged businesses are astonsihing to see. I am sure that among those businesses are scores if not hundreds that just opened, were just getting their momentum, just reaching the black and then this happens.

I hope the Hollywood/Nashville types get their act tgether on a relief effort that could be telecast, as with the 9/11 concert.

And perhaps the bloggers could agree to set a day for a unified blog beg, and I am open to suggestions on the recipient organization, though I hope it would be an organization that makes loans/grants to people to get houses and businesses repaired. The relief groups like Samaritan’s Purse will help with immediate shelter and food needs, but rebuilding will be a long and expensive process. Let me know if you have ideas on a recipient, or if you are a blogger willing to coordinate some fund-raising.

N.Z. Bear at TTLB stood up and has agreed to coordinate the event.

Hugh Hewitt suggests “perhaps the bloggers could agree to set a day for a unified blog beg” and Glenn suggests this Thursday, September 1.

I’m in. Here’s what I’ll do here at TTLB:

1) Set up a registration page where bloggers planning to join in can say so, including providing information (if they like) about where they are blogging from and the charity they suggest donations to.

2) Make the database as publicly accessible and available as I can, so that anybody else who wants to create an aggregation page or otherwise use the list can do so.

3) On the day of the event, I’ll create a dedicated community page for it, and run that as TTLB’s front page.

Other suggestions are welcome, and I’ll try to think of how else I can help during the day today. I should have the registration page up and running tonight…

Update: The registration page is now available…

Flap has registered and has chosen Catholic Charities as his Bleg partner.

Michelle Malkin has KATRINA: GETTING THINGS DONE

Read it all here.

Glenn Reynolds is compiling a list of bloggers and their charities here.

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A church with a steeple knocked over by Hurricane Katrina sits in the floodwaters surrounding New Orleans, Louisiana August 31, 2005. Authorities struggled on Wednesday to evacuate thousands of people from hurricane-battered New Orleans as food and water grew scarce and looters raided stores, while U.S. President George W. Bush said it would take years to recover from the devastation.

From the California Office of Emergency Services (via private e-mail to Flap):

Subject: Rescue Line for Victims

State OES has learned that trapped victims on the Gulf Coast are calling family, friends, loved-ones, or anyone they can get a call out to in California asking for someone to rescue them. These requests need to go immediately to the US Coast Guard’s Rescue Line at 800-323-7233 and immediate assistance will be sent.

Please distribute this information as widely as possible.

Flap would appreciate your distribution.

H/T Darleen’s Place

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Flap is just back from Nevada….

Tomorrow is Blog for Katrina Relief.

Thanks to Hugh Hewitt and Caltechgirl for reminding Flap of tomorrow’s event.

Evil Glenn and TTLB have joined forces to promote a blogswarm for donations to Katrina.

Not Exactly Rocket Science is participating tomorrow, and is pleased to recommend the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), a fine charity that we’ve been supporting all of our lives over here. UMCOR is unique in that it’s major distribution center is already in the area, so they’re able to mobilize quickly. Also, since UMCOR is a subsidiary of the United Methodist Church, 100% of your donation goes directly to the area you choose.

More soon on a list of Katrina relief charities……..

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FAN INVOLVEMENT: Michael Lighty of Oakland, right, participates in a wave Tuesday protesting Gov. Schwarzenegger as he held a fundraiser at Angel Stadium. Fire, nurse and teacher union members offered anti-governor trading cards.

The Orange County Register has Unions boo the governor, Schwarzenegger’s Anaheim fundraiser attracts protesters of what they call anti-labor propositions.

It was a game within a game at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night, with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger holding a political fundraiser at the park while labor union members pulled out the stops to attack the governor – including satirical trading cards given to fans.

Needing to improve sliding approval ratings and to reverse voter disinterest for his three November ballot measures, Schwarzenegger showed up for campaign money – with Angel owner Arte Moreno and Emulex Chairman Paul Folino hosting the luxury-box fundraiser.

But as with other recent appearances in Orange County and throughout the state, the governor’s trip again provided a stage for labor unions upset with Schwarzenegger’s efforts to undermine them with his ballot measures.

Flap wonders who is running the Governor’s political organization.

Here are some recommendations.

And….. the Governor is not attending the Labor Day dedication of the new University of California, Merced.

Arnold, some reorganization of your political staff is in order and change your schedule.

QUICK!

Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Special Election, Arte Moreno

Cross-posted to the Bear Flag League Special Election Page

Flap previously reported Dental Town: How Does Blog Traffic Compare.

Flap was discussing with a colleague today about the immense growth of the blogosphere and what it means for dental bulletin boards and web sites. So, I started to compare.

Here is the Dental Town site probably the largest (at least by Howard Farran’s claims) dental bulletin board site. It boasts over 56,000 members (unverifiable and likely a grossly inflated number since so-called Townies can join with more than one name and/or identity). There are no sitemeter counters that Flap can see on the site.

It appears that participation in their annual Townie Choice Awards is down.

The downloadable ballot is here.

After 9 days of the Survey their traffic was:

Today’s numbers are:

2005 Stats:
2162 participants
Voting Aug 1 – Aug 31

2004 Stats:
2483 participants
Voting Aug 24 – Sept 30

But, voting has been extended apparently for another 7 days.

Have dentists abandoned Dental Town or are they just refusing to complete a commercial survey?

Or do dentists prefer the non-commercial dental discussion sites like Sci.Med. Dentistry or the Internet Dental Forum.

Stay tuned.