Recently, at NetSquared, I got the opportunity to meet David Sasaki, who manages Rising Voices, a project of Global Voices. Rising Voices recently released a request-for-proposals for micro-grants up to $5,000 for blogging work.

Beth Kanter won the NTEN prize at the Nonprofit Technology Conference this year. Perfect choice—she epitomizes what blogging is about—ability to write with a curiosity and imagination for what is possible. Congratulations Beth!

Subscribe to her feed immediately.

Paul Lamb is blogging NTC on his Cool n’ Conscientious ningsite.

I couldn’t go, but Jocelyn Yin and Amro Radwan from our office are there. I’m waiting for their download.

At lunch this week, Lucy Bernholz explained that blogging was her way of procrastinating from doing a bunch of things on her todo list, including a bunch of writing. The irony, she noted, was that she probably wrote at least a book’s worth of blog posts during that time.

In her observation lies the kernel of truth that stayed in my head—how does a book get written?

One word at a time.

Just the same way a blog gets written.