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These "public conversations with today's boldest voices" are the brainchild of activist journalist Anne-christine d'Adesky. She's traveling the world interviewing policy makers and on-the-ground organizers on issues of global health and AIDS. The site uses Google Video and Movable Type to create an online video magazine. It was a bit of a rush but it looks great and I'm sure Issue #2 will look even better. The interviews are what make the site, of course! Visit the site and Anne-christine's complimentary personal blog.

On a Friday my wife Julie and older son attended a rally to save a favorite church threatened with closure and by Sunday we launched Savestmarys.net. It was a weekend where I was already swamped with deadlines, so it's standard Movable Type but with all the tricks of mashed-up Web 2.0 sites to let Julie pour content in: Flickr, Slidoo, Slideshow Generator -- and soon Youtube. Visit site.

An short-lived international coalition that barely survived to site launch, the project was interesting because of its requirement that its mission statement be displayed in half a dozen languages, include left-to-right set Hebrew and Arabic and Nepalese!