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Amateur Tsunami Video Footage

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Waxy.org…: Daily Log: Amateur Tsunami Video Footage
In addition to the extensive first-person coverage of the tsunami disaster on blogs, there have been several amateur recordings of the tsunami from camcorders. Unfortunately, the network websites aren’t making them easy to find and view. The videos are usually only available as poor-quality, streaming video like RealPlayer, and buried in popup windows and poor navigation.

Ben pointed me to downloadable versions of three clips. I’m hosting them here. (Unfortunately, I don’t have much information about the source of these videos.)

* phuket.wmv (11MB) – shot from inside a restaurant, waves engulf older couple clinging to railing before flooding entire room
* patong_beach.wmv (10MB) – rooftop view of two huge waves battering buildings along shore, then flooding of city streets
* sri_lanka.wmv (7MB) – upper balcony view of hotel swimming pool area getting flooded as observers run away; woman asks “how high will it go?” before retreating
* koh_lanta_thailand.avi (11MB) – shot on beach level; watch as first wave grows and crashes, before cameraman’s frantic retreat away from shore
* penang_beach.wmv (1MB) – shot from wall above beach, three men are caught in battering waves
* sri_lanka_resort.wmv (6MB) – upper level hotel balcony; restaurant, pools, and deck flooded as people cling to trees; two men narrate what they see

Photos of before and after the tsunami

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DigitalGlobe | Sample Imagery
Kalutara, Sri Lanka

©2004 DigitalGlobe
“After” Image Collected December 26, 2004
Image © 2004 DigitalGlobe

©2004 DigitalGlobe
“Before” Image Collected January 1, 2004
Image © 2004 DigitalGlobe

Description:

This is a natural color, 60-centimeter (2-foot) high-resolution QuickBird satellite image featuring the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka. Imagery was collected at 10:20 a.m. local time, slightly less than four hours after the 6:28 a.m. (local Sri Lanka time) earthquake and shortly after the moment of tsunami impact.

Using a Wiki for documentation and collaborative authoring

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Michael Angeles has written an article on using wikis for documentation and collaborative authoring. To quote:

Documentation may help to ensure efficiency, continuity and consistency in library operations. Library technical staff might consider the use of collaborative publishing software for documenting their internal processes and procedures. Wiki software for collaborative web publishing has emerged as one of the viable and inexpensive options to consider for maintaining group documentation. There are many inexpensive or free Wiki packages at our disposal and while they may not necessarily bend to meet our every requirement, with a little work can serve many of our needs.

(This article is written from a librarian’s perspective, but is generally applicable to anyone looking for practical ways of collaboratively managing documentation.)

…excerpt from: www.steptwo.com…

Tsunami blog coverage: updates

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Xeni Jardin:

Rohit Gupta, Jon Lebkowsky, and Dina Mehta at the Worldchanging.com… blog have just published a roundup of first-person accounts, aid site urls, and news reports related to the tsunami disaster in Asia. They say this post will be updated regularly, so you can bookmark and return for fresh info as it comes.
Link. Joe Gandelman posts another comprehensive roundup here, on his “Moderate Voice” blog: Link.

Wikipedia is also maintaining coverage in a richly linked, well-organized web page with ongoing updates. Link. And Wikipedia Commons offers related media (photos, data animations, and the like): Link (Thanks, Nick Douglas)

Loic Le Meur tells BoingBoing, “A French blogger writes of having been alerted three hours before the tsunamis hit the coasts. An www.boingboing.net…