Mar 3, 2007

Consider Yourself TAGGED!!

Need Your Help for an Experiment:
We'd like your participation, if you are willing:Remember Horton Hears a Who? All the Who's make a noise at the same time, and even though they are small they get heard? A number of us bloggers want to try an experiment. We want to gather 30,000 bloggers together to shout all at once, and see how loudly we get heard. Why 30,000? Because that is the number of people originally represented by 1 congressional district in the United States. It is a small number when you think of it, but it can have a huge voice.Here's how it works:
Send an email to brian@bravehumans.com with the subject: Yop!
In the body of the email list the name of your weblog, and the URL.
Your weblog will be added to the list of participating weblogs.
Tell your friends who blog about it, and urge them to send in their weblog as well.
When the list reaches 30,000, a date and a word will be listed on the page. On that date, every weblog on the list agrees to make a single post with the word as the title. The content of the post should be about what you want for the world, whatever that may be. The purpose is not to make a particular political statement, but simply to make a noise. If 30,000 weblogs all post the same unusual word, it WILL be heard.Have you ever wanted to shout to the world? Here's your chance.Some of you might be asking, "What if you don't get 30,000 participants?" That's a great question. My perspective is that it proves how difficult it is to communicate with 30,000 people, let alone 570,000 people, which is approximately how many people a congressman represents today. (Yikes! No wonder we don't get heard!)So, we either prove that 30,000 WILL be heard, or that it's difficult enough to communicate with 30,000 people, which is 19x less than today's congressman needs to communicate with.And, finally, here's the fine print:
Please don't use e-mail to spam people about this; we want this done through the blogosphere by people who want to participate. Feel free to post on it (you can pilfer my text if you'd like), link to this post in your blog, or refer others to this post when you comment on other people's blogs.
E-mails sent to the address above will be deleted after being added to the list. The e-mails will neither be collected nor responded to.We just want to see how loudly 30,000 bloggers can get when they all make a noise at once.

Sphere: Related Content

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for letting us know about this Carol. I have signed up!

Carol said...

Hello my friend! I am thrilled to see you here. Thanks so much for joining us in this "experiment" I think it will be quite an "event!"

Thea said...

Great idea and fun too.
I have emailed Brian plus posted it at http://life-wealth.blogspot.com/ on 5 March.
Namaste, Thea

Carol said...

Thank you Thea!! You Rock!

Anonymous said...

Hello Carol,

Just a quick note to let you know that I have signed up for the 30,000 Bloggers project, and have posted an article about it on my blog.

Thanks for starting this experiment. I am anxious to see what the outcome will be.

Jose

Carol said...

Hi Jose, Nice to meet you. I am thilled that you have decided to join us in this effort, I am very excited to see how this will all turn out. Thanks again!

Save a life, gain a buddy - dogsindanger.com