Blog Action Day- Can’t get any more influential than that
It’s a holiday for all bloggers to celebrate. It’s a holiday to unite all bloggers on one issue. It’s a holiday for the good of mankind. It’s Blog Action Day.
One man started with a web 2.0 startup like anyone else. And now he has over 15,000 20,000 blogs and 12 14 million readers all over the world together promoting the same issue. The environment. Talk about getting the world to hear you. The goal of this blog is basically CanTheWorldHearMe but the guy behind Blog Action Day has already done it in two quick months and I applaud him. Hopefully he might read this blog and see the full impact in how far his influence has spread.
Now the most creative thing I find about this concept is that it is actually promoting something ‘good’. In a time when people are predicting catastrophic global warming and pollution and rising oil prices, you would think Mother Nature is out to get us. But the truth is that we have caused all this damage in the first place. And by ‘we’ I really mean the adults and the adults before them. Now we as the ‘new generation’ have to clean up the messes they left behind. I propose one and only one solution:
- Educate yourself with common sense
Simply that means just be aware of what you do. Too many people and especially kids are too concerned with their own personal matters that they don’t think of how they affect the world in a large scale. This might just be the fault of our society or poor parenting. But this brings me back to my post about everyone’s story and the monkeysphere and how it is impossible for the human mind to care for everyone at once. So why not just think of everyone else as ‘the world’. I know that putting every single person on the world into one category is demeaning but it works in this case. We need to not only educate ourself of our actions but just become more aware of what we do. Hopefully if everyone at least takes that initiative the ‘new generation’ really can make a difference in the world.
~Kevin X
Edit// Well what do you know, the creator of Blog Action Day, Collis, DID visit our blog and left us a loving comment! He even quoted us on the official website! From us at CanTheWorldHearMe, thanks you Collis!
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Hey Kevin!! I hear you
It’s Collis (from Blog Action Day) here, someone emailed me a link to your blog. I enjoyed the quote from Steve Jobs you had in your last post too, it’s one of my favourites. Keep up the great work!
Hey Kevin, thought you might like to know that the first two lines of your post are now in a quote on the Blog Action Day homepage - http://blogactionday.org/#8
you are in the same position i am, to be smart enough to do things but to lack the power to do it. i just hope its not because your family screwed up long ago. (read my new post to understand what i mean and not take it the wrong way)
[...] Es un día de fiesta para todos los bloggers. Un día para unir a todos los bloggers sobre un mismo tema. Una celebración para el bien de la humanidad. Es el Blog Action Day. (Can The World Hear Me?) [...]
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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