BLOGGERS around the world have been invited to join a mass blog effort for one day about one topic, starting with the environment.
“On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind — the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future,” the organizers behind the Blog Action Day announced on their blog.
As of this writing, the call has already attracted 1,358 blogs, the organizers said. A-list bloggers have already signed up first for this call to action, including Lifehack, Copyblogger, Get Rick Slowly, The Simple Dollar, and Zen Habits, among others.
Organizers said there are three ways to join this call to action: post an entry in your blog relating to the environment on Blog Action Day; donate your day’s earnings to an environmental charity; and promote Blog Action Day around the Web.
The organizers said the blog posts should relate to an issue of their own choice pertaining to the environment.
“For example, a blog about money might write about how to save around the home by using environmentally friendly ideas. Similarly a blog about politics might examine what weight environmental policy holds in the political arena,” the organizers added.
Posts need not have any specific agenda but should relate to the larger issue in whatever way suits the blogger and readership, they said.
“Our aim is not to promote one particular viewpoint, only to push the issue to the table for discussion,” they added.
The environment was selected as 2007’s theme “both for the clarity of its importance and the undeniable urgency that issues like global warming and pollution have,” the organizers said.
Blog Action Day was launched sometime in the first week of August 2007.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
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September 1st, 2007 at 1:29 am
A friend of mine called it “commercial mobilization” or “zombification of bloggers” but I personally thought it’s a very cool concept. And to support both the initiative and the saving environment movement, i signed up too! Someone now has to remind me to blog about it. haa
Thanks for sharing!
August 30th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
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August 30th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Your Online News has joined in.
http://youronlinenews.blogspot.com/2007/08/take-blog-action.html
August 29th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I am very sorry to be off-topic on this one, but I really think that Filipino bloggers should take a look on this.
This is a video of Naruto Shippuuden with Filipino song and Tagalog lyrics with an ABS-CBN logo on the top left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZc_5Hptus
while this one is the dattebayo fansub website news that talks about that video posting on youtube and the concurrent release of episode 26 of Shippuuden:
http://dattebayo.com/pr/43
The following issues somewhat turns the heat up and everyone else is being racist against us Filipinos:
1. The video on YouTube is fan-made and not by ABS-CBN, for the fact that Naruto episodes aired in Philippines are still from past seasons.
2. Dattebayo claims that Filipino has stolen their opening credits.
About Naruto:
Naruto is a Japanese anime about the life of a ninja and his friends and Shippuden is the current season being aired in Japan where Naruto is about 13 or 14 years old.
The one being aired in Philippines is when Naruto is still 8 or 9 perhaps or maybe younger.
About Dattebayo:
Dattebayo does not own Naruto or an official for that sense, but they produce decent translations and quite popular among fans of Naruto.
My concern is that everyone who downloads from Dattebayo website and found and read that news, the very thing that we build all these years, the Filipino pride, will shatter if not handled properly.
Please take a look on this while it is just two days old. I hope we are not too late.
BTW, it’s completely fine with me if you opt not to post this as comment.
My best regards and more power,
Wilson, Filipino programmer from Japan
dyinyus@yahoo.com