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July 22, 2003

Blogathon 2003. Do you have it in you?

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This Thursday is the annual Blogathon. For those who don’t know (I didn’t), the Blogathon is a charitable affair of sorts. Bloggers collect sponsors who will donate money to them. What do the Bloggers have to do? Sell magazine subscriptions? Bowl? Walk or run? They have to upate their blogs every 30 minutes for 24 hours.

There are those who are taking it a bit further and launching 24 hour broadcasts, or streaming programs. Jonas of FSCK has a rather noble approach to the whole affair:

“I’ll grab my laptop, a cell-phone (for wireless Internet), and a camera, and show you, for 24 hours, the world of those who aren’t as fortunate as most of us are. You will find me in an emergency ward at six AM, writing about those who work there and those who need them, at eight I’ll be at a homeless shelter soup kitchen, making breakfast, and telling you stories, at ten we’ll provide, together, comfort and help to some of the death-watch inhabitants at the local AIDS-ward, only to move on, later, to be at a candle-light vigil for Rachel Corrie at the local Synangogue. We’ll go and meet a juvie probations officer and his “clients”, we’ll dive into the night, seeking out a San Francisco needle exchange (NX) (some place I won’t take pictures, I hope you’ll understand), and talk to some people there. We’ll meet the hookers, the bums, the dying, and the dead.”
Check out the Blogathon site here.
If you’re interested, you have until the end of the day (PST) tomorrow to sign up as either a blogger or a sponsor.
“Remember: blogging is not the only way to support the Blogathon!”