Good deeds do get rewarded! If you know someone who’s been toiling in the open source vineyards, developing software that’s helping nonprofits succeed, check out the Tides Foundation Pizzigati Prize, a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest. The competition, judged by a panel of national leaders in public interest computing, is now entering its third year. The application deadline for this year’s prize: September 1, 2008. You can find out more at www.pizzigatiprize.org.

The last winner was announced at the NTC in New Orleans.  

Flickr Photo: celestehodgesChange is buzzing through our ears -- and not just from the Obama campaign,but in the NTEN Affinity Groups, as well.

Marc Osten, Summit Collaborative, invites us to join a discussion that puts Web 2.0 on the hot seat, asking, "Will Web 2.0 be the tool set we need to change the world?" View the conversation here.

Mark's idea for this discussion stems from a recent thread on the UK Riders list. The UKRider thread was started by David Wilcox, who shared a bit about Clay Shirky's book, Here Comes Everyone. Shirky states the following regarding Web 2.0.: