If you read this blog, I’d like to encourage you to add me as a friend on change.org. It’s really the only social networking site I can be bothered to spend time with. Why manage friends on LinkedIn, Friendster, Orkut, Amazon.com, or indeed any social networking site while the world is still in desperate need of social and political change? change.org allows you to meet people, but you meet them around specific causes you support, rather than because of their professional background or taste in music.

The site still needs to expand to become fully international in scope, but it’s already doing a great job tracking some of the most important global issues just weeks after its launch. You can find me, of course, through my pet cause number one: free educational content.