Tuesday, July 18, 2006
OneWebDay, Two Months Away!
This is not a blog post, it is a request to other bloggers to blog OneWebDay this Saturday.
This Saturday, July 22, OneWebDay will be exactly two months away. OneWebDay, September 22, is like Earth Day for the Internet, the day to stop and realize that the Internet is a gift we should not take for granted. (Professor Charles Nesson of the Berkman Center says, "There's divinity in it!")
There are OneWebDay events a-planning for New York and London, at least. Canada looks good, and there are active nuclei of OneWebDay planners in Chicago, Austin, the SF Bay Area and several cities in Canada.
My own plans: I'll be speaking in Vienna at Internet Summit Austria with Dave Farber on September 20th. Dave and I have agreed to stay over in Vienna until the 22nd to inspire and participate in a OneWebDay event -- we've put the proposal to the Austrian ISP community. [Note that Dave F is about as anti-Net-Neutrality as you can responsibly get, and I've copped a strong pro-NN position, but there's plenty of common ground on OneWebDay!]
Please give the OneWebDay mo an extra push this Friday or Saturday by blogging, "Two Months 'til OneWebDay." Here's the kind of text we're hoping to see (but please do not hesitate to roll yer own!)
Disclosure: I am on the OneWebDay board of directors. It'll make me rich someday, probably right after the OneWebDay IPO. Meanwhile, OneWebDay is non-profit, I have no expectation of financial gain, nor was I promised any . . . doing this job is an example of the nonmarket production that Benkler writes about. Please join us in making OneWebDay a success!
This Saturday, July 22, OneWebDay will be exactly two months away. OneWebDay, September 22, is like Earth Day for the Internet, the day to stop and realize that the Internet is a gift we should not take for granted. (Professor Charles Nesson of the Berkman Center says, "There's divinity in it!")
There are OneWebDay events a-planning for New York and London, at least. Canada looks good, and there are active nuclei of OneWebDay planners in Chicago, Austin, the SF Bay Area and several cities in Canada.
My own plans: I'll be speaking in Vienna at Internet Summit Austria with Dave Farber on September 20th. Dave and I have agreed to stay over in Vienna until the 22nd to inspire and participate in a OneWebDay event -- we've put the proposal to the Austrian ISP community. [Note that Dave F is about as anti-Net-Neutrality as you can responsibly get, and I've copped a strong pro-NN position, but there's plenty of common ground on OneWebDay!]
Please give the OneWebDay mo an extra push this Friday or Saturday by blogging, "Two Months 'til OneWebDay." Here's the kind of text we're hoping to see (but please do not hesitate to roll yer own!)
The Web has changed millions of lives. Two months from now, on September 22, 2006, we'll be celebrating the first OneWebDay. The goal of OneWebDay is to make the Web, and our individual connection to it, visible -- so that we don't take it for granted. Add the OneWebDay Button to your site and get together with friends in your town to plan an outdoor celebration with an on-line component that people elsewhere on the Web can appreciate.Thanks!
Disclosure: I am on the OneWebDay board of directors. It'll make me rich someday, probably right after the OneWebDay IPO. Meanwhile, OneWebDay is non-profit, I have no expectation of financial gain, nor was I promised any . . . doing this job is an example of the nonmarket production that Benkler writes about. Please join us in making OneWebDay a success!
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