Photo District News‘s student site PDNedu launched a blog that is full of promise. Help them name their blog and you could win a Nikon digital camera. My suggestions were: Pixel8d and LightChasers.

One of the bloggers of this new site, Jeff Curto, invites photographers to submit work for an open critique. It would make for some great exposure should your image get chosen [sorry, couldn't resist!]. Just be open to positive criticism.

I am huge fan of the Canadian blog Drawn dedicated to illustration, art, cartooning and drawing. Here is a link to the contributors to that group blog. Please bookmark the site and visit often!

Via Manish Vij

“I have done my best to honor Hindu mythology with both a sense of charm and originality. My aim was to simplifiy Hindu imagery to make it more accessible for young children and their parents.”

With a kid on the way, my wife and I are going to definitely order Sanjay Patel‘s book – Little India. Sanjay works at Pixar [me turning green right about now] as an animator and a storyboard artist. Order your copy of Little India or 11×17 prints by clicking here.

Via Dave Winer

“BlogHer‘s goal is helping women bloggers identify, reach and grow the audience they seek by raising their visibility and searchability. Once women bloggers build relationships with each other — online and in person –- it will be easier for Web users to find more quality, relevant bloggers.”

Right on my sistas! [Anna you going to this?] It's not only open to women. Men are welcome to attend this conference as well. If there is ever a East coast version, please let me know.

Via Jason Kottke

Meetup.com will now start charging groups that meet on a regular basis. As Jason says, this is going to kill off those casual groups altogether. Perhaps now we'll get a more reliable metric that the likes of Al Gore and Howard Dean threw around regarding their “grass-roots” constituencies. Or, hmm, were they referring to MoveOn.org? Do tell.