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Blogging Katrina

By Emma Valentine

• An American corporation that provides internet service world wide.

• Best known for Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Video.

Founders• Yahoo! Was founded by Jerry Yang

and David Filo in January 1994

Jerry Yang• Born November 6th 1968 in

Taipei

• Education: graduated Piedmont Hills High School.

• Received Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

David Filo• Born April 20th, 1966

• Education: Graduated from Sam Houston High School.

• Received Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Tulane University

• Received Masters degree from Stanford University.

What Are They Doing Now?

Jerry Yang• Married to Akiko Yamazaki

• She also graduated from Stanford University.

• Met in Kyoto in through a Stanford overseas program.

• Jerry Yang is on the Board of Directors of Alibaba, the Asian Pacific Fund, Cisco, and Yahoo! Japan.

• Also on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University.

• Was said to be the 400 richest man in Forbes Magazine, 2006.

David Filo

• In 2006, said to be worth $2.9 billion.

• Donated $30 million to Tulane University.

• Married to photographer Angela Buenning

Fun Facts!• Considering America’s second language is

Spanish, it’s interesting that Yahoo! En Espanol was created after Yahoo! Italy.

• David Filo is the 240th richest man in the world.

• All the conference rooms at Yahoo are named after Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors

Why is it in the top 16?

• Yahoo! was and is one of the most highly relied on internet search engines.

• Billions of people rely on it everyday!

Blogging Katrina• Yahoo! Was

one of the search engines most people used to look up the situation on Hurricane Katrina when it hit Louisiana.

Hurricane Katrina• Hurricane Katrina hit the

southern coast of America on August 28th, 2005

• Said to be the worst natural disaster in United States history.

• Category 5 Hurricane

• 1,836+ fatalities.

Michael Barnes

• Michael Barnes, stuck on the 10th floor of an office building while Katrina hit, wrote blogs during and after the hurricane hit.

• It gave people a personal idea of what the people being affected were experiencing.

Blogs on Katrina• After reading Michael Barnes play by play, on

the disaster, people wanted to know more.

• This caused the blogging frenzy amongst the people of the southern United States.

• People wanted to tell the world what happened and get more aide and sympathy.

• These blogs provided visual and descriptive accounts of the aftermath giving people around the world a better understanding of what was taking place.

Katrina Victims Today• Many Katrina Victims are worried that their

temporary homes will be taken away by the government.

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• Still working on rebuilding homes, families, and cities.

• People still continue to blog about Katrina giving updates so that people all around the world can follow up with currant situations in the south.

Fun Facts!• People wrote humorous poems and songs about

the disaster to deal with their emotions.

• The most wanted Barbie doll this Christmas season in Louisiana:

Looter Barbie - Comes with shotgun, hundreds of gold chains, and

shopping cart filled with electronic equipment.

Louisiana Jingle Bells• Dashing through debris

With a chainsaw in my hand FEMA's on the way They haven't got a plan

Looters on the way They're making quite a fright Oh, what fun it is to have My great big gun tonight

CHORUS Oh, Jingle Bells, my fridge smells Katrina, kiss my ass Won't y'all come back home real soon And help pick up this trash!

Hear the generators whir They're making quite a sound I'm just taking in all the sights With no one else around

Aaron Broussard's on TV He's crying like a chump He dried his eyes just long enough To turn off all the pumps

• CHORUS Oh, Jingle Bells, my fridge smells Katrina, kiss my ass Won't y'all come back home real soon And help pick up this trash!

Got a blue tarp on my roof It's keeping out the rain The adjuster arrived two months late Then promptly lost my claim

Gotta love those MREs For making spirits bright I'm saving one with M&Ms Just for Christmas night!

CHORUS Oh, Jingle Bells, my fridge smells Katrina, kiss my ass Won't y'all come back home real soon And help pick up this trash!

Why is it in the top 16?• Hurricane Katrina was the first natural disaster

which hit the United States in the age of the “Net”.

• Before people could not easily get information about situations this important unless they waited for the 6 pm news of the newspaper the next day.

• It was instant. People got information the moment it happened.

Aftermath Of Katrina

Bibliography- Yahoo!

• "Yahoo! -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 24 Nov. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!>.

• "Jerry Yang (entrepreneur) -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 24 Nov. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang_(entrepreneur)>.

• "David Filo -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 24 Nov. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Filo>.

• "David Filo and Jerry Yang." BGSU :: Academics :: University Home Page. Web. 25 Nov. 2009. <http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/tcom/faculty/ha/455yahoo_files/frame.htm>.

Bibliography- Katrina

• "Hurricane Katrina -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 24 Nov. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina>.

• "Hurricane Katrina poems--humor and frustration." Experience NEW ORLEANS! Guide to New Orleans hotels, restaurants, weather, attractions & coupons. Web. 24 Nov. 2009. <http://www.experienceneworleans.com/katrinapoems.html#5>.

• "The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 25 Nov. 2009. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/us/08trailer.html>.

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