One Web Day, September 22 2007

The idea behind OneWebDay is to encourage people to think of themselves as responsible for the internet, and to take good and visible actions on Sept. 22 that celebrate the positive impact of the internet on the world.

Via Doc Searles

  Post your thoughts here or on your own blog:

• about the top 10 amazing ways the web has changed the  world.
• about the ways the web has changed your world
• about the  ways you'd like to see the web change the world

    I don't know about 10 amazing things, but here goes

1. Enabling and allowing people around the world to have conversations on common subjects.  An exemplary example of this is The Autism Hub, by and for people with autism, their parents, and professionals. 
2. Learning of all types.  An exemplary example of this is Beth Kanter's initiative, Cambodia4kids.org (the link is to the blog).
3. Person -to- person responses to public and private disasters.  Let me list Hurricane Katrina Direct Relief as an example of the first, and Julie Amero's defenders as an example of the second.
4. Enabling hyper-local news.  A good example of this is the recent Castle Rock fire in Blaine County, Idaho.  The deal about Blaine County is that it is home to Sun Valley, and many folks not Blaine County residents have a love for the place.  The excellent work of Sun Valley Online kept us up-to-date on fire news, with excellent citizen-journalist  video reporting (also see Castle Rock Fire).  See The Peoples' History of the Castle Rock Fire.

And how has the internet changed my life?  I have friends I've never met.  I've read stories I would have never heard--and they changed me.

Comments

[Beth Kanter]

Thank you for the mention! Most appreciated ... Beth