Following Gustav

With Hurricane Gustav approaching the Gulf Coast it has been interesting to see how the internet is being used to disseminate news and information.  Blogs, Twitter, forums, Flickr, Utterz and a range of other social media are all helping to cover the Hurricane as it nears the US.  While this phenomenon isn't new I am very impressed by how one person has harnessed Ning to aggregate all of this information from a wide varity of sources and create an online community for coordinating volunteer knowledge-sharing related to the Hurricane.  Check out the Gustav Information Center on Ning here.