BPSDBI missed it – I was too busy.
However it seems to have been a success:
We are about to hit 27,000 32,000 total trackable blog posts, and our current estimate is that together we reached at least 17 million people today. We are also about to exceed 12,000 registered bloggers on the site and are working to get all of you who posted but haven’t yet registered into the final count.
The numbers are not huge in global terms. Maybe that reflects on the general level of interest in Climate Change worldwide – or maybe not. I don’t know of a good statistical source for this.
But since the aim was to increase awareness (even temporarily), it appears to have worked.
As I didn’t post, I’d recommend Jim Prall (an occasional commenter here). I don’t share his optimism, but that is just my personal opinion – and his blog deserves recognition if only because of his Herculean efforts at documenting and analysing who is saying what.
IMAGE CREDITS:
All images are from http://www.blogactionday.org/.
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Image taken from http://birdbrainscan.blogspot.com/2009/10/happy-blog-action-day-for-climate.html, I don’t know precisely where he found it.
Yes it does look impressive.
But i reckon a lot of bloggers are signing up to the BAD web site and then not posting anything about climate change.
One suspects that they just want to improve their search results??
Maybe Blog Action Day demonstrates that the Internet can be far more than it is. And that it needs to be. And should be.
The web has the potential to be a main forum for public discussion, and shared concern and needed action on critical social issues.
Part of a work in progress?