Can a person change the world by instant messenger? That’s what a guy named Parker is trying to do. He’s raising money and awareness for causes by emailing, blogging and vlogging for 30 days! A couple of months ago, Parker found out about the i’m Initiative. It’s a Microsoft program that gives to a social causes every time you use Windows Live Messenger or Windows Live Hotmail. The i’m Initiative claims, ”the more you talk, the more we give.” So Parker is getting a bunch of people talking for 30 days to see how much will they give.

So takepart and visit Parkers site at http://imtalkathon.com.

Bloggers are uniting for human rights today!

By challenging bloggers to blog about a particular social cause on a single day, a single voice can be joined with thousands of others to help make a real positive difference; from raising awareness for cancer, to an effort to better education systems or support 3rd world countries.

Read Giulia’s post on the campaign and learn how you can

Bloggers Unite is an initiative designed to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a better place. By challenging bloggers to blog about a particular social cause on a single day, a single voice can be joined with thousands of others to help make a real positive difference; from raising awareness for cancer, to an effort to better education systems or support 3rd world countries.

The next event is May 15th when the organization asks that Bloggers Unite for Human Rights.

and get involved at http://unite.blogcatalog.com/

The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. This week we celebrated some of our own favorite top 10 bloggers who work night and day to provide us up-to-date info on films, literature, and feminist news. Don’t miss these exciting and informative blogs, as well as some of our most popular stories of the week.

Katie:

“La Misma Luna Under the Same Moon,” Not the Same Old Movie

Top 5 Eco-Friendly Gadgets for Under $50

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Nicole:

Top 10 Literary and Book Blogs

NBC11 First Wind Powered TV Station

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Giulia:

Top 10 Feminist Blogs

Horton: The New Mascot for Pro-Life

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Gina:

Top 10 Film Blogs

Top 10 Films I Would See If I Was At SXSW

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Kerry:

Our Pharmaceutically Fouled Water Supply

Top 7 New Sins Against God’s Green Earth

Written by women for women, these top 10 blogs focus on issues, news, and gossip geared toward educating, entertaining and empowering girls. While I’m sure there are plenty of men who enjoy the writings of these well-spoken gals, these blogs are predominately speaking to their sisters.

1. Feministing believes that young women are rarely given the opportunity to speak on their own behalf on issues that affect their lives and futures.Feministing provides a platform for us to comment, analyze and influence.
2. Feministe is one of the oldest feminist blogs designed by and run by women from the ground up.
3. Our Bodies Our Blog is your your daily dose of women’s health news and analysis.
4. Jezebel is a blog for women that will attempt to take all the essentially

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All over the world are a growing group of bloggers posting pictures of “real people” as models and it’s influencing the fashion world to follow suit.

According to an article in Newsweek bloggers say their sites (Street Peeper, Last Night’s Party, Fashionista and Stylesight, to name a few) are both creating and responding to interest in street fashion. “The Look Book,” a collection of photographs of fashion-conscious New Yorkers originally published in New York Magazine, came out last September, and one of its subjects is already a star: André J., a bearded cross-dresser, graced the November cover of French Vogue. Merlin Bronques, who posts photos of trendy clubgoers on his blog, Last Night’s Party, has shot his friends for ads for Ben Sherman and Converse. Now real people are even strutting the catwalk—the swimwear company Lycra plucked 20 women of all shapes and sizes off the beach to model their suits at last year’s Miami Swim Fashion Week.

Fashion-industry folks say the trend of using real people to sell clothes attests to a fatigue with skinny, expressionless models in ads and on runways.

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An increasing number of women bloggers who self-identify as “fat,” and who pride themselves on their larger figures, are taking the internet “fatosphere” by storm. These bloggers are challenging conventional medical knowledge about the relationship between obesity and poor health, stating that the American “obesity epidemic” is really just hysteria, and that not only are Americans the same size they’ve always been in the past, but that being overweight can actually be good for you. Want to know more? Check out some of their blogs at kateharding.net and therotund.com.