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Making sense of digital information on the web, especially in the first days after a major event, is difficult. Information is altered and overwritten. Pages appear and disappear. Updates and opinions and analysis rush past faster than anyone can possibly process it all.
Making sense of such information weeks, months, and years after the details and memories have grown hazy: even more difficult.
In an effort to preserve a small slice of what happened and how the world responded in the days after the tragic earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, I’ve set up this site to compile a bibliography of digital resources about the event and its aftermath. Though a comprehensive list of all digital materials on the web would be impossible, I hope this currently random jumble of headlines can be organized into a bibliography that might later prove helpful to those who seek documentation and understanding of what happened in these frantic few days.
To add a link about the Haiti earthquake and related stories, events, and efforts starting on January 12, 2010, please email haitilinks @ gmail . com or leave a comment in any post. Articles in languages other than English, Twitter streams, videos, photo galleries, and other related multimedia sources are welcome.
To volunteer an hour or two to research and compile resources, organize information, add metadata, or write bibliographic citations, please email haitilinks @ gmail . com as well.
Thank you,
Kellie M. Walsh
January 15, 2010
