• Today is Blog Action Day, and it looks like a huge number--nearly 10,000--have signed up to post on climate action issues.
• Most notable in that list, beyond all the usual enviro sites: Prime Minister Gordon Brown's blog, and the official Google blog.

Clay Johnson and his team at Sunlight Labs have won the 2009 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award at OSCON 2009 in the "Best Community Builder" category.* Not bad for a bunch of civic-minded government geeks. Interesting note on the evolution of the web: OSCON didn't even have a community category award back in 2005. It has since morphed from "Best Community Activist" to "Best Community Builder" to "Best Community Amplifier" and back again to the builder designation this year.

*Note: Our Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry are senior advisors to the Sunlight Foundation.

Will Turnage, a freelance developer working on RepresentedBy, a really cool Facebook application that he is planning to submit to the Sunlight Labs "Apps for America" contest, has uncovered a seemingly suggestive correlation between how "digitally transparent" a Member of Congress is and how much money they are seeking in earmarks in the 2009 economic stimulus package. He writes, "as digital engagement increases, there becomes fewer and fewer legislators who are sponsoring extremely large earmarks." Here's a table summarizing his findings: