Interdictor is a LiveJournal blog that documented the effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans during and following the destruction.
In the early aftermath of the hurricane and flooding, it was one of the few reliable communications links between downtown New Orleans and the rest of the world.
[1] Operating on a diesel generator when power was lost, Barnett and fellow bloggers provided a continuous stream of reports of what was actually happening and, through webcams, live video feeds, and thousands of high resolution pictures, gave the rest of the world a chance to see the looting and destruction firsthand before the rest of the media arrived on the scene.
The Interdictor blog quickly became a widely recognized and cited source from inside New Orleans.
[2] Even after the media arrived, the Interdictor blog was still commonly cited as a reference to the events ongoing in New Orleans.