In preparation for Blog Action Day, and with a nudge from a piece I read by The Numbers Guy, I thought I'd talk about measuring poverty.

Last year we participated in Blog Action Day. We will be doing so again this year on October 15. The topic for 2008 is Poverty. Here's more information if you would like to get involved:

Aerophile.com has proposed a new way of displaying data in real time for community benefit. They're putting air pollution data up in the air so that people can see it from 20 kilometers away.