When I last wrote about Myanmar, the military junta had blocked the entrance of humanitarian aid and teams of relief workers from the United Nations, United States and other countries. They are allowing relief inside the country as long as they are the one's controlling it's distribution and they've blamed procedural paperwork for the slow issuing of visas.

As I have said before, Global Voices Online is the place to go if you want to read a roundup of bloggers giving on the ground accounts of what's happening in Burma. From Mong Palatino's reporting I found out about the Burma Cyclone blog, which is becoming an archive of all reporting about the devastation. Another blog to keep on your short list is Freedom for Burma by Burmese Bloggers without Borders. They translated a newspaper article by the government that had described the coming storm as non-threatening. They are a good source for making political sense of the repressive regimes actions.

The video clip I have included is by Dan Rivers who working for IBN and CNN and, takes a cue from many a video blogger and records the devastation without the government's permission. There's a moment in the clip where he says he was arrested but manages to talk himself out of going to jail. Watch the report.