I learned about One Web Day at a Berkman Thursday Blog meeting. It is coming soon now. As the sites says, “The mission of OneWebDay is to create, maintain, advance, and promote a global day to celebrate online life: September 22, 2006.” The site goes on to say:
“OneWebDay is one day a year when we all - everyone around the physical globe - can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities. As with Earth Day - an inspiration and model for OneWebDay - it’s up to the celebrants to decide how to celebrate. We encourage all celebrations! Collaboration, connection, creativity, freedom. By the end of the day, the Web should be just a little bit better than it was before, and we’ll be able to see our connection to it more clearly.”
This is a great cause to get involved with if you are an internet addict or even only a user. The internet has certainly changed my life and enabled a new way to stay in touch with friends and family as well as new business model for which I am grateful. There is a bit of irony here that I cannot resist pointing out. Thee US National Parks have seen a significant decrease in visitors in the last few years. They attribute this to tow factors, the rising price of gas and the rise of internet use keeping people inside at home. How wiil Earth Day and other green causes be affected by the “Inner Earth Day.”
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