The White House has a bran new site, which includes a blog, an agenda, and the upcoming weekly video address.

Better yet according to Macon Phillips, new media director for the white house, “All executive orders and proclamations would be published on the website, as well as all non-emergency legislation, giving the public five days to comment before they are signed by the new president.”
Pretty amazing.

The charity auction is in full swing. Go bid on a photo session or a website from me, or check out the all the critiques and books being offered. I’m tempted to bid on a critique myself.

Sabrina has a new, well written, and highly content driven site up and running. One of the most interesting and articulate bloggers I know.

Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek and Jon Foreman of Switchfoot have formed a new cd: Fiction Family. Very promising, and it’s on Emusic. More thoughts on this when I’ve had a chance to listen to it.

“For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace….

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends – hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism – these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility – a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. “

Read the full speech at ABC