Shame on me for reading it first somewhere else, but my eyes were glued to Web coverage of Iowa flooding by the Cedar Rapids Gazette.

My friend Jason Kristufek heads up the paper’s Web efforts, and he’s been doing them proud.

From a map-enabled display of stories as they were breaking (sorry, no link) early on and wall-to-wall coverage during the event to reader-driven clean-up resources and assistance and postings of “Random Acts of Kindness” by volunteers in the area, the Gazette rocked under extreme conditions.

Great work!