Not that I routinely need a blog about Ubuntu, but if I do, this seems like it's at least frequently updated.

"an Ubuntu based distribution featuring the lightweight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications. The distribution is developed from a minimal Ubuntu install and has been designed to offer a good balance of speed and functionality"

"Public AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) for running Ubuntu or Debian on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)."

Looks like it mostly works out of the box.

"optimised to run on a new category of affordable Internet-centric devices called netbooks. It includes a new consumer-friendly interface that allows users to quickly and easily get on-line and use their favourite applications."

This project builds an Ubuntu Linux server image for Amazon’s EC2 hosting service that’s ready to run a standard Ruby on Rails application with little or no customization.