Blog Action Day 2008 http://site.blogactionday.org The Action Blog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:00:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en 1090892http://www.feedburner.com Blog Action Day Launches http://site.blogactionday.org/event-news/blog-action-day-launches/ http://site.blogactionday.org/event-news/blog-action-day-launches/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:58:08 +0000 Cyan http://site.blogactionday.org/?p=187 This 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!

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Easton Ellsworth is running the twitter account and you can keep up to date by:

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