Updated 9:30 a.m. with some links to Hawaii bloggers' reports.

Smaller Big Island

KonaBoy posted three four photos at Flickr (He added last night's cinematic sunset"over the new and improved Kealakekua Bay.") :

This was taken this morning a few minutes after the big earthquake that rocked Hawaii. As you can see a large chunk of the pali at Kealakekua Bay gave way, and splashed down in the bay, sending up a huge dust cloud.

We shook very violently here, and our local hospital is damaged, the highway has boulders all over it, and our power was just restored. Everyone I know here is ok and I feel very lucky for that, although we sustained some minor property damage. My thoughts are with all of Hawaii, and I'm hoping no one was injured or killed.

Expect more photos to show up at Flickr under the Hawaii earthquake tag.

The Honolulu Advertiser site is up, and all over it. Readers with power respond to, Did you feel the quake? Tell us about it

KITV, The Hawaii Channel is streaming live.

When the power returns, blogs on the Big Island will, too.
Updated now:

Hawaii Metroblogging: Decent shake:

You folks outside of Hawai'i probably know more about today that we do.

We lucked out. This apparently was caused by a submerged landslide rather that being associated with any magma movement. Geologist know that there have been landslides in Hawai'i, circa 100,000 years ago, that generated a tsunami over 1,000 feet (305 meters) high. This will eventually happen again. When it does, ever city on the Pacific Rim will disappear from the face of the earth.

Ian Lind points to a photo gallery at West Hawaii today.
Geek News Central: Hawaii Earthquake a 6.6 with Sprint Ev-Do to the rescue!
Hawaiian Independence Blog: Earthquakes
Almost Paradise: Earthquake!

The gist: Whole lotta shakin', shaken people and frightened cats, no power, little damage. No fatalities or major injuries is good news after a 6.6 quake.

Intramural politics in Connecticut: One of the customs of blogging involves posting a portion of someone else's writing for readers to see and comment on.

Some blogs and -- especially -- news stories are closed to reader questions, comments and (uh-oh) "What I know about this that you might not know." If the source doesn't hand you the mike, the theory goes, port the posts to another site, turn on that blog's comments tool, and open the discussion.

In theory, this should work. News organizations may welcome feedback, but clunky publishing systems don't come with that capacity; there's not enough staff to monitor every story's comments for libel; flushing comment spam is a waste of time. Some controversial blog authors get heckled to death by snark and don't want to deal with it, but want their posts distributed widely and even discussed, but not in their faces.

So these satellite publishers credit and spread the original source; the reader gets to comment directly under the story, and many of the awkward issues above sort of go away. Maybe the one-way authors peek in to see what's said about them and their work in comments. Maybe not.

Do-it-yourself, open-to-the-public distribution is a brilliant meme. In spite of itself, sometimes.

Dan Gerstein, communications director for Conn. Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent campaign, turned off comments on the Lieberman site's Blog of Joe six days after it began on Sept. 5. because of "ugly, insulting and hateful comments that some Lamont supporters have been posting by the hundreds."

Last Tuesday, Bob Adams of Milford (Connecticut Bob), a supporter of Democratic nominee Ned Lamont, launched a blog called Joe's 2006 Blog WITH Commenting Turned Onthat mirrors (copies) every post from Joe Lieberman's official blog in its entirety and lets readers comment on them.

As you might expect, both sides are now sparring in those comments.

So it's sort of a win-win: Lamont supporters get to desconstruct Lieberman blog posts and the Lieberman posts get new readers. The jostling continues for all in the unruly commons, out of sight and off Joe's site. Is everybody cool with that?

A footnote: In Gerstein's post explaining his shutdown of comments, he notes,

Also, much to our consternation, a leading Connecticut newspaper printed one of the fake comments that someone posted under my name and attributed the quote directly to me.

Oof. Anonymous commenting has local customs: Be Anonymous Coward, Annie Moore Kwestions or pretend to be someone who wouldn't say what you're typing. All's fair. Sure you can quote a comment -- but doubt the moniker. Hedge it. (A commenter signing a post "Benjamin Franklin" wrote, "...") Consider them all signed by Ben.

Over at the official Ned Lamont blog -- which does allow comments -- there's mention of today's 1 p.m. debate with incumbent Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Democratic nominee Ned Lamont and Republican challenger Alan Schlesinger in Stamford,

To the best of my knowledge, there will be a live, online video stream available...

Update: Connecticut Bob reports, "NBC30 will carry the debate LIVE at 1:00 with streaming video (link), and will broadcast it at 7:00PM tonight."

C-Span shows the debate on its schedule. Here's the "Watch live" page.

Related: Connecticut Bob's first-person-with-camera coverage of the state's Democratic primary day is also worth a look. He's archived the day's posts in chronological order, as it unfolded.