OhmyNews recently ran a piece entitled:
Argentina Joins MIT’s Low-Cost Laptop Plan: Ministry of Education is ordering between 500,000 to 1 million low-cost computers for young students
The laptops, still in R&D stage, will according to the MIT lab:
“…will be a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop that will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will [...]
Business Opportunity Weblogs has a fun little mechanism you can play around with to find out what your blog is worth. It is based on the multi million dollar sale of Weblogs, Inc. and
Tim Porter at First Draft has a good roundup about the technology awareness and interest at the Associated Press Managing Editors conference. They seem to be getting it, but very slowly.
He ran a panel on blogging and writes:
My panel was sponsored by Yahoo News. Need I say any more about the future [...]
Want to know what is happening on the public and participatory journalism front in Ecuador and the rest of the Spanish speaking world, but don’t speak Spanish? Well Eric Samson at his site Periodismo Público América Latina has a solution for you. He is now blogging in Spanish and in English.
Samson invited me [...]
I have been doing some research about youth and learning via computers and in one article was referred to the San Francisco Exploratorium. Neat stuff for a kid or an adult. What’s it have to with journalism, well maybe nothing today, but maybe everything tomorrow. Who knows?
As you might know, the Harnisch Foundation under the direction of Ruth Ann Harnisch gave us a substantial gift to start the Center for for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. We are up and running. Keep abreast of what is happening at SustainableJournalism.org 
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.