First, please vote for my proposed panel at SxSW next year. I'm hoping to speak about how social communities could work WITHIN corporations. It's titled "Social Networks Inside Companies: Brilliant Idea or FAIL?" This will be my seventh year attending SxSW and I'd love to give a good panel instead of sitting in the audience. Please vote for me, kthx.

Second, go sign up for Fuelly. Fuelly is a site to track your gas mileage and compare it with others. You can even track your friends and see what they are driving and what kind of mileage they get. I'm Cruftbox there if you want to add me. The site was built by Matt & PB. There's even a nice page for your iPhone to enter your mileage while standing at the pump. For years I used to write all this info down in a notebook in my car. I only stopped once I got the Prius, since it autocalculates it. I think it's very cool.