September 2006
This month begins the fourth year of this blog. It's been wonderful having a voice.
Speaking of voices, for the last year or so I've been working on a celebration of the internet called OneWebDay. Today there were two milestones for OneWebDay — I recorded my very first PSA podcast (thanks, Howard!). Howard was a DJ for a long time, and you can hear his fine radio voice at the end. But the first voice is mine.
The second milestone was getting in touch with volunteers in London, Sofia, Tokyo, Washington, D.C., and Ottawa about helping them set up Meetup.com pages for whatever OneWebDay activities they end up holding. (Thanks, Meetup!) This is the first year of OneWebDay, so it may be one volunteer and one puppy (and a laptop) getting together, but it's a start, and it was good to have five capital cities to write to. Lots of other cities in several countries are doing things too — in fact, I can't really tell what's going to happen.
I'm just planting a seed with this OneWebDay idea. The idea behind it is to create an Earth Day for the internet. It's a day to celebrate how important the web is to each of us and remind ourselves not to take it for granted. (Because the web is made of people, it's up to us to take care of it.) It's a big tent, OneWebDay. I am still hoping to find someone who will create a way for millions of people each to upload a picture that becomes a pixel in an enormous online collage, but that may have to wait for year two. The day will have a character of its own that has nothing to do with me (I've seen a blog posting talking about “the Canadian organizers of OneWebDay,” and someone once asked me whether I was with “the OneWebDay organization”) and will be different in each place where it happens.
It's great to have a voice — we each have one, online.
