Day: January 2, 2005

New blog Cheese and Crackers is the focus of a Wall Street Journal article out today about the explosion of video blogging as a result of the disaster in Southeast Asia. My Tsunami video bandwidth saga was mentioned in the story too.

North America:

American Red Cross

Canadian Red Cross

Save The Children


International aid organizations:
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)
United Nations’ World Food Programme
Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders (donate!)

CARE International

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

UK/Europe:
Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) – comprises a raft of aid agencies
British Red Cross
Save the Children UK

Anders Jacobsen:
Webloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I’ll give too!

BREAKING: March 28, 2005 – New Southeast Asia Quake, 8.2 Mag. Tsunami Threat, Evacuations.

Tim Blair provides Tsunami disaster stats.

While I applaud the effort, I have a funny feeling that this is going to end up like this did for the Democrats.

I love these.

With the help of Newsweek, John Kerry comes out of his post election funk to share the highs and lows. Here’s a sneak peak.

UPDATE: Full story available.

What happened? (via NYT, reg req)

With the exception of a few Democratic outliers in Ohio, few people dispute that the election for president is done and decided: President Bush won and John Kerry lost.

But as the new year begins, no such consensus exists among Democrats about why Mr. Kerry was defeated, and the party is locked in a battle of interpretation over just what went wrong. Was it values? Terrorism and Iraq? A better Republican get-out-the-vote operation or a rush of Hispanics to President Bush? A gawky candidate with little to say?

It’s hard to see where you’re going when you’re gazing at your navel.