Readable Laws: A Wiki Taking Legalese and Turning it into Plain English.
News related to Chris Messina (via Beatblogging):
Gigaom has a good introduction to a proposal from Chris Messina to turn WordPress into an open social network he calls DiSo. He calls the project that he is working on with Steve Ivy and Will Norris a network built "inside-out."
Also see: A Digg Powered by Journalists:
Having sources who you rely on as "news-recommenders," never hurt. There is editorial value in serving up the best links, but a good link-blogger will tell you – it takes time and effort. Just ask Romenesko. But with social bookmarking you can mimc Eyebeam Reblog,
and get great links form a volunteer effort. That’s what Digg is – a
space where volunteers find links in their expertise area and share
them.This is all related to a new phenomena that could become more common
for the networked journalist: Sharing links and information with
journalists in other news organizations.Why don’t reporters who are on the same beat share more information?
And Finally: Geeks Doing Good a call to SF Geeks to volunteer 12-29-07