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NetNewsLedger was founded and forged in a hurricane. In 2006, my plan was to attend Confederation College and study Broadcast Journalism. That plan was interrupted because of an email. That email was from a person in a small community on the Gulf Coast of the United States. They had prepared a list of where the people in their community of fifty-six people were going. The young woman asked if I could publish that list for her.
At the time, I didn’t really know how to do that but felt it should, and could be done. I opened a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and went to save it as HTML. It was a list of the people from that small community, and where they were and how to reach them.
That opened the floodgates to a huge number of similar requests. I ended up, sitting with a Sony Vaio Laptop on my knees, building a team of about twenty people from around the world, and we focused on creating a missing person list from New Orleans.
We ended up with a pretty massive list, and when the project was taken over by the ‘Katrina Scrapers’ and master lists were generated, we were the 13th largest list, one behind CNN. Right then and there I realized that while education is important, perhaps time could be better spent doing rather than learning how to do.