• Are you building a Web site to promote liberty? Before you dump your donors’ hard-earned dollars into proprietary software, take a look at Ready Made Web. The site, launched recently by Cord Blomquist and Jerry Brito, is a virtual toolkit for using off-the-shelf technologies to create a Web site. Want to know about open source content management? How to incorporate social media into your Web site? Ready Made Web has articles that cover those topics—plus open-source success stories from around the liberty movement.

• For all you watchdogs, Judicial Watch has recently published a handbook on how to use the Freedom of Information Act to uncover vital information on what’s going on in government.

• The Alternative Manifesto provides a 12-step program (or, “programme,” as they say in England) for curing Britain’s addiction to government spending. Author Eamonn Butler of the Adam Smith Institute interviewed the heads of Britain leading think tanks to produce a comprehensive plan for cutting government down to size. By the way, Butler, along with his colleague Madsen Pirie, have just been awarded the National Free Enterprise Award from the Institute of Economic Affairs. Congrats.

• Bankrupting America is new Web site devoted to exploring the policies hindering economic opportunity and growth in America. Produced by the group Public Notice, the site will focus on the causes of the country’s current economic downturn and the future implications of careless policy-making.

• We reported last week that sales of Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom have quadrupled since November 2008, reflecting, perhaps, some anxiousness about the current spasm of government interventions in economy. Indeed, Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell will be at The Heritage Foundation this coming Wednesday to discuss how Hayek’s ideas are especially relevant for addressing today’s economic difficulties.

• As Lawrence Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education, points out, if you don’t take it upon yourself to help promote and defend liberty then you are essentially a free-rider on the work of those who do. There are lots of ways to help the cause of liberty. You can find some good ideas by checking Reed’s Daily Liberty Checklist.