The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie Halper:

Brigitte Bardot Fine: Top 5 Bardotisms That Got Hot Sex Symbol In Hot Water

Obama Pound: In Historic Moment, White People Exposed To Fist Bump For First Time

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Nicole Hughes:

Get a Job: Top 10 Guides to Finding the Perfect Eco Career

Schwarzenegger Declares Drought in California

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Andy Kondrat:

Barcelona Fines Citizens for Using Drinking Water in Pools and Gardens

Coal Power Plants Waste Two-Thirds of Energy Input

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Jon Popham:

Megabus Expanding to the East Coast

Egyptian Blogger Freed from Prison

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Giulia Rozzi:

Diamonds In The Rough: A Ugandan Hip Hop Revolution

Cluster Bomb Ban

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Gina Telaroli:

Interview with Nina Davenport, Director of Operation Filmmaker

KidZui : Internet for Kids (and Those Young at Heart)

KidZui has decided that we adults have had enough fun and it’s time that kids have their own internet. The Internet for Kids (KidZui) is a new free browser or portal that offers 600,000 kid-friendly websites, videos, and pictures reviewed by trained parents and teachers. Also it is pronounced Kid-Zooey!

Instead of blocking the bad stuff from the adult internet, KidZui takes the opposite approach and just includes all of the positive, all of the awesome stuff that kids can and should enjoy.

You can visit http://www.kidzui.com/ to sign up today and get your kid (or you for that matter) started on a new journey to have more fun on the internet.

“With KidZui in our home, we look forward to our children exploring the Internet,” said Robyn Jackson, a San Diego resident and mother of three kids aged 2, 5 and 8. “KidZui is a great way to give my kids some freedom on the Web, without having to worry about what they might see. I have already been telling all my friends about it, and now that it’s free, I’m sure everyone will be signing up their kids.” [EarthTimes]

For a video interview with the CEO and founder of KidZui click here >>>

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Save the whales! Save the rain forests! Save the internet?

Yes, apparently the internet needs to be saved too. According to savetheinternet.com Network Neutrality aka “Net Neutrality” for short is in danger. Net Neutrality is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.

Check out this video from James Rucker, director of SavetheInternet.com partner ColorofChange.org, says his organization “wouldn’t have had a chance without a free and open Internet.” Net Neutrality is vital to bloggers, activists and organizers working for a more just and equitable society.

Put simply, Net Neutrality means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination.

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