War correspondent Kevin Sites is in the news again. This time not for reports he made, but for ones he hopes to make. Starting Sept. 26, Sites, 42, will travel to 36 hot spots for Yahoo! News and use all the tricks of his multi-media grab bag to tell the world what he has seen and heard. Viewers will even be able to interact with him and chat online. Sites has been known in the tight world of war reporting for years, but became a flashpoint last November when he videotaped a US Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi insurgent in a Fallujah mosque. The videotape ignited tremendous uproar in the Arab world and spawned a military investigation. It also caused Sites to be hailed by some as a fearless journalist who showed the underbelly of war and scorned by others as an American traitor.

In addition to a big opportunity for Sites, his new move is a big one for Yahoo!, marking its first foray into original online video programming. The site will be called Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone . It's a direct challenge to mainstream news reports, which face increasing criticism that they are too slick, too packaged and often too biased. Sites will offer a combination of edited and non-edited material. He plans to start his reports from Africa and hopes to be in Iraq by Novemeber, on the first anniversary of the US invasion of Fallujah.

Katarina's Space Database

Like the landing of NASA's Pathfinder in 1997, when United States officials quickly posted downloadable pictures from Mars , Katrina proved to be a historic moment for the Internet. This time, the star agency was the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Geodetic Survey, which quickly provided satellite intelligence  of the disaster region that could be used by relief workers, the government, and even residents of New Orleans trying to understand what had happened to them and their homes. The images were of such high resolution that you could even detect whether a home on a specific street was flooded or not. NOAA's amazing service has proven that -- at least this time -- technology was more reliable than the government.