A week after a broad coalition of groups announced an extensive project to track and research the 1,867 pork projects hidden in the 2007 Labor-HHS appropriations bill, I have some good news to report.

Bloggers on the left and right have rallied to the cause. With members of Congress set to return to Washington, D.C., after Labor Day, they will be greeted with more scrutiny from their constituents on not only earmarks, but also the way business is done on spending legislation.

The "Exposing Earmarks" project, as we've come to call it, asks YOU to get involved in helping to track down the earmarks in this bill. We have a lot of information already compiled in the database, but we want to find out who exactly is responsible for securing the earmarks.

Getting started is easy. Our friends Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner, Zephyr Teachout at the Sunlight Foundation and N.Z. Bear at Porkbusters.org have each posted the database of earmarks on their websites. Each database looks a little different -- a table on Mark's, map on Zephyr's and graph on N.Z.'s -- but they all contain the information you need to help out.

Our effort has already received favorable press coverage in Old Media establishments such as the Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor. Dozens of bloggers, meanwhile, have written about the campaign against earmarks.

Now it's up to you. Mark Tapscott has set up a convenient e-mail address -- info@examiner.com -- to share what you've found. Make sure you put "Earmarks" in the subject line and then fire away.