Blog for poverty
- Blog Action Day, Causes, Freedom of Expression -
By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net
There are over 10 million blogs, podcasts, and videocasts worldwide and many of these are created to talk about a person’s ideas. Some are about like-minded groups who talk about basically anything under the sun, from technology, finance, gaming, politics, lifestyle, entertainment, among other things. What if “netizens”, at least for one day, talk about one thing only, one subject that could perpetrate one idea that may change the world?
To encourage bloggers to be part of that change, a small group of them have dedicated October 15 of every year to Blog Action Day. This year’s main theme will be on poverty, a perpetual issue that affects more than half the world’s population.
So far, there are 9,887 blogs, podcasts and webcasts joining, with an estimated 10,800,000 audiences, the website says.
Blog Action Day’s goal is to talk about one topic, particularly a global issue.
It also intends to create a venue for people to share their ideas that can be used to spur change. They will only talk of one topic every year. The group intends to show the world that the Internet is a viable platform for change.
