Today is Blog Action Day

The theme is water; and I'm too crammed this week to write something deeply intelligent or detailed.

That said, this day itself-- a loosely coordinated effort to get a group of people all over the planet to blog
• on the same topic, of urgent concern
• on the same day

is an example of our growing convergence and ability to cooperate.
http://blogactionday.change.org

This year's topic? Water

Number of participants? 4,815 in 136 countries.
(with a combined readership of 37,594,285 Readers--
about half a percent [ 0.5%] of the world's population,
which is equal to about 9% of the world's college educated population)

Here's a first person account by the founder of how it happened:
http://northxeast.com/building-momentum-how-blog-action-day-got-going

"Today – October 15th, [2007] is the very first annual Blog Action Day. As the international dateline passes over the world, over fifteen thousand bloggers will be waking up to prepare and post about the environment on their blogs. Three months ago “Blog Action Day” did not even exist."