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Salla, Erick and I got the broadcasters/screenings listings up to date this evening. I did my patriotic duty and personally added the CBC Newsworld listings. There are about 20 broadcasters (out of 45 or so), so there's still more to come.

If all goes well today (I'm calling it Wednesday since it's officially past midnight), our guest blogging initiative will go live with our first writer: Robert Reich. Reich's a Berkeley professor, former member of Bill Clinton's cabinet and author of several books, the most recent of which is the just-released Supercapitalism, which addresses the conflicts that exist between capitalism and democracy. We've got a full complement of skilled and brilliant writers who will collectively offer perspectives from all over the world. I'll get the full list of writers online tomorrow.

In order to be even more democratic and let more people know about the Why Democracy? project, we started digging today.

The News Room had already digg-this-icons in place but our house blog
lacked these democratic instrument of social networking. I implemented
the digg-this function in the blog today - make your vote count! Happy
Diggin'!

John & I implemented a few new feeds that show up in the sidebar of our news room. Enjoy the new documentary and news resources!

A court in Egypt has sentenced three journalists and four editors to prison and forced labor.

Al Jazeera reports three journalists were sentenced to two years in jail while Reporters Without Borders speaks of four editors, who have to pay the highest possible fines and have to spend one year in forced labor. The journalists were punished for spreading "untrue information which damaged the reputation of the justice system and the justice ministry".

Find more sources on Google News and related articles in our archive.

Learn more about freedom in Egypt by watching our documentary Egypt: We Are Watching You! about the brave women from Shayfeen.com. Join the global debate in our forum: What would make you start a revolution?

On Monday the world's leaders conducted a summit on the worldwide problem of climate change and global warming. Among the politicians were Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, and "An Inconvenient Truth" star Al Gore.

UN chief, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said that the meeting was a crucial event to promote the priority of environmental issues on the agenda of world politics. Ban Ki-moon sees progress in the commitment of politicians around the world to fight against global warming.

Read more about this historic event on Al Jazeera, AFP, Reuters as well as in the Seattle Times and join the global debate in our forum: Can politicians solve climate change?

Read related articles on our del.icio.us page.

We recorded the material for a podcast during the morning meeting – it will be broadcasted nationwide in Canada through a radio show called Search Engine moderated by Jesse Brown at CBC radio.