Hurricane Irene: Best and Worst of Live Online Coverage (and Puerto Rico Street Shark)
Forget FEMA and television newscasters. How’d the web do for live coverage of Irene? Surely I’m not the only guy bored by our local coverage, as Yahoo Buzz puts “Hurricane Irene” as the third-most searched term on Yahoo (after the words Facebook and YouTube).
So how are we doing? Well the online-video coverage is varying about as much as the weather in the U.S. right now… from amateur (consumer generated) weather footage and news reports to the coverage of the Puerto Rico street shark, let’s have a look…
- MdWeather.com has a live U-Stream report that’s already fetched 20K viewers, and ranked high on a Google search.
- YouTube shows the latest amateur footage of the hurricane: click here to search the most-recent videos tagged “Hurricane Irene.” For example, here’s “CalebInPublic” showing the tree that landed on his roof.
- NBC coverage was disappointing with mandatory Quicktime that wouldn’t play on my Mac.
- Weather.com’s Hurricane Irene coverage on its website it a bit more organized, and easy to navigate.
- Here’s another YouTube search that shows more of the professional coverage on YouTube (searched “hurricane irene” on YouTube videos uploaded today.
- This Bahamas video seems to be on of the most popular consumer-generated coverage so far.
- Then there’s the Hurricane Irene Puerto Rico street shark photo. Real? Of course not, but how cool? Naturally, while the Sharks may be in Puerto Rico, the Jets still rule NYC.
Hurricane Irene from Space
http://youtu.be/PEx5m3bCqzY
best coverage yet!
http://youtu.be/PfpQM3xT_7o
I hope Irene blows some rain this way. It’s the worst drought of the last couple of centuries here in Texas.
this belongs here
JoJo is on the scene – http://youtu.be/eM7tHrsUub8
Thats not a street shark,it’s a Mutant japanese sea bass 😉
I don’t mean to come off as insensitive, but that’s clearly photoshop. You can’t that exact shark image on google, albeit chasing a kayak in the bahamas. Its from national geographic.
MrB apparently has reading comprehension difficulties. Try reading the last paragraph again, MrB. There’s even a link to Washington Post explaining the image.
U mean the shark photo isnt real? It looks real to me!