Well, I never finished my post for blog-day. Oh, well. You can always look at the page I created for Global Voices and you can find a lot more than 5 new blogs.
Global Voices is organized around geography. When I created the Esperanto page there, it wasn't clear where such a page should fit. So, I created an imaginary "Esperantio" region and then linked the Esperanto page to that. When I went back a couple of days ago, I noticed that the Esperantio page had been removed. So I sent an email to the only guy who's expressed even the tiniest interest in Esperanto -- he's actually been very supportive, but he's the only one who's validated my participation in any way -- and asked where he thought Esperanto ought to fit. He hasn't gotten back to me. I'm not going to participate in the project again until I hear something about how they see Esperanto fitting in. I think I've demonstrated, by adding and categorizing links to something like 150 different sites, that there is enough Esperanto activity to warrant some attention.
Watching the news tonight, I saw the mile after mile of New Orleans under water and realized that, unless they drain the water in the next few days, all of those trees are going to die. I know that thinking about trees when people are suffering and dying isn't perhaps completely politic. But it's going to be a different place, even if they patch the dikes and get the water pumped out, if it takes more than a couple of weeks.
I saw that people were blasting Dennis Hastert for saying that maybe New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt. Right now its something like 6 feet below sea level. As it continues to sink, of course, sea level is going to rise due to global warming. How many feet below sea level is it worth having New Orleans exist. 10 feet? 20 feet? I don't think I'd be planning to move back to New Orleans. At least not for the long term.
StevenBrewer