Unique VU game experience: I attended the Vanderbilt-Richmond football game tonight. I don’t know if I can get used to the whole winning thing — they’re 4-0. Or, the stadium being filled with fans who are all cheering for Vanderbilt. Or Vanderbilt fans doing the wave for way too long. Or the student section filling up before the second quarter. Or the first-string quarterback being able to sit out half of the fourth quarter so the second string quarterback can get some snaps.

One complaint: the Vanderbilt defense is way too porous.

Next morning update: Oops. I guess there are some traditions that winning football teams have that Vanderbilt would hope to avoid.

Disaster blog tracking in the post-Google blog search era: If you’re trying to search (as Doc Searls calls it) the World Live Web, I’ve just discovered a feature on the new Google blog search beta is especially helpful. Using the advanced search feature, you can limit a search of blogs to the past hour.

For example, here is a link to results of the word “rita” using the “past hour” limit on blogsearch.google.com. Here is an RSS feed of those results.

Ice Rocket offers a “past day” advanced search feature.

The other popular blog search engines offer a “by date” sort, but I haven’t run across another offering the “past hour” feature. If you know of one, please add it to the comments of this post. Thanks.

As I run across them, I’ll add links to other “Rita tracking” blogs & media sites that are offering blog-like services:

Wall Street Journal’s Storm News Tracker (free)

Houston Chronicle’s Rita Weblog

abc13.com (includes links to reporters who are blogging)

Click2Houston.com

khou.com

Times Picayune breaking news weblog

Shreveport Times Hurricane Rita blog

Wikipedia’s Hurricane Rita’s entry

Later: An AP story surveys some Rita-related blog and podcast efforts.