EnglishThis morning, August 15 2008, Blog Action Day has launched. In the next two months we hope to encourage thousands of bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to learn about poverty, and on October 15, take action. This might be through posting on the theme of poverty and educating your readers about the issues and actions they might take, it might be donating your day’s earnings – there are many ways you can get involved.
So what’s happened so far? Well in the last 48 hours the blogosphere has proven itself to be a verdant space for grassroots action. Here’s what’s happened so far:
15 of the world’s 100 most popular blogs according to Technorati.com have agreed to participate in Blog Action Day this year, including:
TechCrunch.com
ReadWriteWeb.com
Mashable.com
SmashingMagazine.com
GigaOm.com
Jauhari.net
Problogger.net
CopyBlogger.com
DailyBlogTips.com
ZenHabits.net
Inhabitat.com
VentureBeat.com
Mentalfloss.com
PronetAdvertising.com
TorrentFreak.com
Elena Valenciano, a prominent member of the Spanish Parliament and spokesperson for the Human Rights Committee will be taking part in Blog Action Day.
Ben Rattray, CEO of Change.org is supporting the event, and you can now get involved in the Blog Action Day social network.
…And this is before Blog Action Day 2008 officially launched! We’re so excited about this year and thank everyone for their support so far.
If you haven’t already, join us by committing your blog to participate in this year’s Blog Action Day!
dave
August 30th, 2008
I am counting myself in for this great day . United we stand, divided we fall. Hope I can help shape up this dying world through the voice over industry. I will place the Blog Action Day video up on my blog site and banners and to tell someone about Blog Action Day! I believe, there is still power left behind the inner being of mankind to unleash and save this dying world or bring back its springtime, a wonderful world. Come on world’s bloggers, the entire blogosphere can have such a great role to help eradicate poverty in the world. Blog posts on one single day will have a vital lasting effect which cannot be exactly anticipated in nature, but will almost certainly unique and meaningful in the blogosphere.This is one good start to deal with environmental issues globally to which the G8 movement have fallen short of its goal to solve as such. I believe our letter can kill but it also has the power to give life. Our writings will form a collaborative mass actions that makes our readers concious and engage into the heart of the issue.
53north
September 2nd, 2008
I think just exposing the unfair ‘Trade’ deals and the crippling debt the Worlds Banks like to enforce on ALL countries, will go a long way to waking ‘consumers’ to their ‘neglected housekeeping’
Alex Peter
September 23rd, 2008
I am participating in blog action day 2008 because blog are the best way to share ideas. Blogs are indeed a great source of information.
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