One Web Day

(World's Collide: J.Fitz talking on cellphone next to a totem pole)


One Web Day is a grand thing to celebrate, I think....from their site:

Share Your Story
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

What you can do to celebrate
On OneWebDay, take one web-related action that helps someone else. Suggestions:

* teach someone to use an application (blog, wiki, Flickr) that is new to them
* start a group blog about an issue you care about
* help a grandparent get in touch with a grandchild online
* help a young student find a new educational resource online
* start a story online that other people add to
* go to a local senior center and volunteer to help people get online
* go to a local school and volunteer to help get better equipment in place
* talk to your town about getting free wireless access in place
* post a tribute to a friend online - interview him/her about his/her life
* have a contest with a friend to collect and display the five most amazing things you can find online
* go to a public wireless place and strike up a conversation about the web with someone near you
* send a recipe to a friend and then make dinner together

OneWebDay Events
In NYC, we plan to have a lunchtime event in Bryant Park, a wireless hotspot, where kiosks will be available that people can use to post pictures and text to the web that have to do with how the web has changed their lives. These images can then be projected on large screens, together with a backchat channel. We're inviting "online celebrities" to speak about how the web has changed and will change lives: Jeff Bezos, Craig Newmark. Plus local politicians - Eliot Spitzer and Michael Bloomberg.

Similar plans are underway in Austin, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Portland (ME), Vienna, Naples, Italy, and London. In Canada, CIRA (the .ca registry) has committed significant financial support to promote the OneWebDay celebration in cities across the country.