Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Stay up late for a cause

Got a weblog? Course ya do! So get thee over to Blogathon and put your pesos where your passion is. This event is one of my very favorite things on the web (as a spectator; alas, in the past as this year, I'll be away from the computer on B-day).

The process is simple: Pick a charity that accepts online donations, commit to updating your weblog every 30 minutes for 24 hours during the Blogathon, gather pledges from friends and readers. Then: Do it!

Registrations are open now and as I write this, nearly 300 webloggers have taken nearly $25,000 in pledges for various charities. (Since it started five years ago, annual Blogathons have raised almost a quarter of a million dollars for deserving causes.) Do it. Do it. Do it.

(If you can't participate yourself, you can certainly pledge one of your favorite webloggers. No excuses. Go. Now.)