New Media Women Entrepreneurs (NMWE) will fund three women-led start-ups that will generate new ideas in the world of news and information and model a spirit of journalistic entrepreneurship. Winners will be given $10,000 to launch their ideas and blog about the process over the next year. Deadline is May 1, 2008. Visit http://www.newmediawomen.org/ for more information.
We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic