- In Six Steps to Everyday Activism, Britt Bravo—who want us to Have Fun – Do Good—summarizes six best practices for maintaining hope and enthusiasm when trying to save the world.
- It’s been almost one year since the hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Last September, Zadi Diaz made news with her Katrina video Wake me up when September ends. One year later, it still brings back all the pain and the rage.
- More heartbreaking Katrina stories collected by NPR for StoryCorps.
- Amy Gahran talks about the Iranian blogosphere (“You may be as surprised as I was to learn that Farsi is one of the most popular languages in the blogosphere”) in Time for Blogging Diplomacy? and suggests that “perhaps blogs might represent a potentially powerful new avenue for person-to-person diplomacy.”
- Jeneane’s take on Pluto’s demotion. Web 2.0 ha-ha funny.