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Hurricane Katrina

A report on Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and how technology is reuniting loved ones

A report on Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and how technology is reuniting loved ones. Blogging about their experiences appears to have helped many people displaced by the flooding in the US, as well as a Craigslist-inspired missing persons website. Also in the programme, how host of characters is being brought to life via SMS and pattern recognition to improve typing.

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23 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project