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There has never been more information. And that's exactly the problem. Too much information too quickly published is just as bad as too little.

By now you can see it coming, almost as soon as Hurricane Katrina made landfall, scam artists were setting up their online piggy banks to collect the pennies of the unwitting. Rita, not quite the shrew that Katrina was, will no doubt see Rita relief scams, and an international "call to arms," has been launched to flog the offenders.

The Internet is changing the way people view the world, both in terms what's out there and what's not out there. With the prolific disaster along the Gulf Coast, FEMA requested media new organizations not show the dead in their coverage of the aftermath. As we're finding out, bloggers and photographers are providing stories and images that probably won't make the nightly news.

Hurricane Katrina made landfall at Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, at approximately 7:10 a.m. EDT on Aug. 29, 2005.

I have an iPod, so I get my online music primarily from Apple's iTunes store. My wife has a Samsung digital media player, so she uses Napster.

Two software engineers from Texas put up a website on Wednesday for people affected by the damage of Hurricane Katrina. They use a map from Google to help people pin down areas that were affected.

Hurricane Katrina has devestated New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast region with her fury. Bloggers can help and do our part.

Oil prices hovered in the $60 range today, climbing to $61.10 briefly and then going back down to $60.30. Traders remain moody, eyeing the storm Emily moving into the Caribbean, as they wonder what the effects will be on the Gulf of Mexico.