I just got an e-mail bulletin that says Dubya will personally lead an investigation into what went wrong with the hurricane Katrina relief effort.

The Beeb's Matt Wells thinks the Katrina rescue debacle has helped the U.S. media find its spine.

New Orleans' dominant newspaper is not happy with El Presidente:

Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine has a post up called Recovery 2.0: A call to convene, that discusses ways to make the Internet a much better tool to help communities recover from disasters like hurricane Katrina.

It is unquestionably worth a read.

My one criticism, and it's a mild one, is that in Katrina's case, many of those most adversely affected don't appear to be that wired or computer-literate.

That doesn't argue against the initiative; it just means you might need trained volunteers without strong computer/Internet skills to help those in need make use of the Internet's capabilities.

The Register, via Ananova, reports the following karoake freakout in Bulgaria:

An enraged Brit spent 24 hours in jail and was fined 60 quid for terminating a Bulgarian karaoke with his fists - a small price to pay for bringing to an end a tuneless rendition of Queen's We are the Champions belted out by a couple of melodicidal locals.

Having assaulted the two men responsible for the outrage, 40-year-old Kevin Tester of Eastbourne proceeded to trash the Techhouse karaoke restaurant in the Black Sea holiday resort of Sunny Beach. He later told police he had been provoked by the "bad singing" and "bad English", Ananova reports.

As well as the fine, Tester faces compensation claims from the victims and the bar owner. We doubt if the summons will be delivered by singing telegram.

If you were going to be violently provoked into trashing a karaoke machine, would it be the singing or the choice of song that does it?

If it's the song, what tune would be most likely to send you on a karoake-machine-destroying rampage?

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz on how the U.S. media seems to have found its capacity for outrage with the hurricane Katrina story.

This NYT story on how CNN and NPR turned out to be the right outlets for the hurricane Katrina story.