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Blog Action Day

Posted by: sidv on: August 24, 2008

This is for the information of bloggers around the world reading this blog (Yeah right.. I wish!).

“Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.”

The topic for this year is Poverty.

“First and last, the purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a discussion. We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule and focus it on an important issue.

By doing so on the same day, the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue.

Out of this discussion naturally flow actions, advice, ideas, plans, and empowerment. In 2007 on the theme of the Environment, we saw bloggers running environmental experiments, detailing innovative ideas on creating sustainable practices and focusing audience’s attentions on organizations and companies promoting green agendas. In 2008 we aim to again focus the blogging community’s energies and passions, this time on the mammoth issue of global poverty.”

We will be participating in this event. I urge you my fellow bloggers to mark your calendars on the 15th of October and join this movement as well.

1 Response to "Blog Action Day"

We really think of ourselves as some hot-shot newspaper right? Like we’re important and we have “readers”, a mass of non-thinking heads that just bob up and down all to our tune. That we’re powerful and we can “change” things.

Barack Obama can, we can’t.

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