MANILA, Philippines – 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.
At this writing, the call has attracted 1,358 blogs, the organizers said.
Top bloggers have already signed up first for this call to action, including Lifehack, Copyblogger, Get Rich Slowly, The Simple Dollar, Zen Habits, among others.
Organizers said there are three ways to take part: post an entry in one's blog relating to the environment on Blog Action Day; donate a day's earnings to an environmental charity; and promote Blog Action Day around the web.
The organizers said participating bloggers should post on 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 to have any specific agenda but should relate to the larger issue in whatever way suits the blogger and his or her 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.
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