CLOSING UP THE CLEVELAND KATRINA COMPUTER CENTER: We closed up the computer center at the Cleveland Convention Center at 1 pm today, having helped about a hundred Louisiana visitors with online FEMA applications, searches for missing family members, and other Internet tasks. Despite the huge obstacles created by FEMA's website and phone lines, a lot of these folks made some progress and we got lots of satisfaction from the work.

Kevin Cronin, one of the center's staunchest volunteers, blogs about the issues raised by the experience at RealNEO. I'm looking forward to more thoughts from Jeff Hess, who also put in very long hours. Other than the many City officials involved (and let me say here that the whole Convention Center operation was a class act on the Campbell Administration's part), the key partners in this effort with Digital Vision were Computers Assisting People and BDPA Cleveland, with major hardware support from Thompson Hine, MWH TAG, and SBC. Daniella and Steve also came by to help, and Jeff, George and Tim helped blog for volunteers.

Thanks, everyone!