Photo by @nueves via Instagram on Loisaida Ave. in Manhattan.
“Superstorm” Sandy is impacting millions of people up and down the East Coast of the United States and the Internet is rising to the occasion. Here is a collection of the best online resources for following Sandy coverage. Many newspaper websites that have pay walls are lifting them temporarily during the worst of the storm, including NYTimes.com, WSJ.com, Newsday.com, and BaltimoreSun.com.
And for techies who’d like to help create technological solutions as the storm churns, there’s even a Hurricane Hackers group that is working in an open source way on solutions.
And on MediaShift Idea Lab, Dan Pacheco does a great roundup of the most innovative digital coverage of the storm.
LATEST NEWS
National Hurricane Center updates
Weather Channel’s Hurricane Central
New York Times | Live Coverage (pay wall lifted)
Live Updates: Sandy at WSJ.com (pay wall lifted)
[Long Island] Long Island Newsday (pay wall lifted)
[Baltimore] Baltimore Sun’s Storm Watch
[Connecticut] NBC Connecticut
LIVE UPDATES
Reuters Live: Tracking Storm Sandy Recovery
NY Daily News: Tracking Hurricane Sandy Live
WNYC’s Tumblr | RebelMouse | Storify
Twitter’s Official Sandy Information page
The Atlantic Wire’s Sandy Updates
The New York Observer’s Live Blog
[DC Area] WJLA
[BOSTON] WCVB
TWITTER FEEDS
TWITTER LISTS
“Scott Kleinberg’s Twitter list with 200+ resources
FACEBOOK PAGES
Global Disaster Relief on Facebook
Donate to help via The Red Cross on Facebook
PHOTOS
Instacane: The Story of Hurricane Sandy Told Through Instagram
Weather Channel: Sandy’s Wrath
Wall Street Journal: Hurricane Sandy Hits East Coast
The Atlantic: Hurricane Sandy in Photos
BuzzFeedAndrew’s Tumblr
VIDEOS
Live feed from The Weather Channel on YouTube:
Live Webcams in the Region at Quartz
Associated Press: Youtube
Bloomberg: Videos | Livestream
Gizmodo: Live Photo and Video
MAPS AND TOOLS
NPR: Tracking Hurricane Sandy: Maps and Apps
Outage Maps: Long Island | New Hampshire | Boston Area | New Jersey
Weather Underground’s Wundermap
[NYC] NYTimes’ Power Failure interactive graphic
RECOVERING FROM SANDY
American Red Cross: Sandy’s Aftermath infographic
[NY] NYC Severe Weather
[NJ/NY] WNYC’S Transit Tracker
ARTICLES
Tracking the data storm around Hurricane Sandy at O’Reilly Strata
Hurricane Sandy and the Power of Social Media at LA Times
Instagram Users Are Posting 10 Sandy Pics Every Second at Poynter
Is Twitter Wrong: Is that really a picture of Hurricane Sandy descending on New York?
Hurricane Sandy highlights how Obama and Romney respond to disasters at Washington Post
InstaSnopes: Sorting the Real Sandy Photos from the Fakes at The Atlantic
How a Facebook Page Protected a Region from Hurricane Sandy at Forbes
Hurricane Sandy Prompts Facebook Pleas: Stay Safe at CNN
Hurricane Sandy: Twitter, Facebook Last Resort for News as Power, Cable Go Dead at The Hollywood Reporter
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What other online resources are you using to follow Hurricane Sandy as it morphs into a “superstorm” in the Eastern U.S.? Please share them in the comments and we’ll add them to our guide.
Jenny Xie is the PBS MediaShift editorial intern. Jenny is a senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying architecture and management. She is a digital-media junkie fascinated by the intersection of media, design, and technology. Jenny can be found blogging for MIT Admissions, tweeting @canonind, and sharing her latest work and interests here.
