Today Michelle Obama announced the creation of the Summer of Service initiative, at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. I was irrationally excited to see her in person, and to be there as "media" as a live-Twitter and blogger! Take a look at http://serve.gov, a central point for people in the U.S. to find volunteer work. The interface for this site is very slick!

This weekend has been all about cake. The 30+ bloggers who came to my house for the BlogHer meetup left quite a lot of food and half of it's cake! They arrived with laptops, silver toenail polish, gossip, and stories about past BlogHer conference. Hot topics: the conference; how to get conference tickets (enter the special offer contests!) WordPress vs. Blogger; making books from blogs; the food conference in San Francisco; April Rose; social media strategy case studies, and a blogger's relationship to comments and commenters.

Last week you might have read about why I love your blog! To continue this series of posts on blogs I love, let's look outward from the U.S. Blogging is a great way to change your information feed so that you look, not just outside your own country, but outside of your own language.

Jumping from blog to blog is like flying around in the pages of a *Giant Anthology of Awesome*. I love to dip into other people's lives and into their obsessions. Seriously, I love it.

This week I went to the Sex::Tech conference in San Francisco hosted by ISIS. The Access Sex panel was on sex education, sexual health, and people with disabilities. I thought the BlogHeristas might like to see my detailed notes on the panel - it was largely about women's sexual health and sex education, and it also might intersect with our parenting community, since BlogHer has a strong group of mom bloggers who are parents of kids with special needs.