Blogging Nation Week is January 11-17
Reposting from the Committee to Protect Bloggers:
With the power of the internet modern communication has been harnessed on a global level like never before.
Blogging on the net has now become the speakers’ corner for a new generation and gives individuals the chance to make a difference and spread their weird and wonderful messages. The Wordia.com team is helping us celebrate the Committee to Protect Bloggers‘ recent relaunch and expansion, and will be bringing forward a selection of great words throughout the week.
“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
— John Gilmore
GET INVOLVED: We’d like bloggers to get involved as well and take each word of the day on in a blog post, twitter message or video, which you can submit to our Wordia page once it’s live on Monday. 
What is a Blogging Nation? It’s made up of anyone who writes or finds value in blogs. We are one nation under the rotating header banner. Linking, commenting, sharing and posting are our rights. Our topics range from revolutions to scene consistency flaws in films. The Blogging Nation is borderless, leaderless and without frontier, and when various geographic-based governments attempt to control what we can or can’t say, we find ways around it.
The Committee to Protect Bloggers and Wordia.com are putting together a weeklong campaign to celebrate blogs and blogging and both the writing and reading of social content online. We’re also highlighting the challenges that people face in some parts of the world where free speech is severely repressed. The Committee to Protect Bloggers works to promote free speech for bloggers worldwide. Article 19 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression” and the Committee to Protect Bloggers is set up specifically to uphold this notion and unite the bloggers of the world. This weeklong event is aimed in that direction.
Wordia.com runs a new video word of the day every day, 365 days a year and they run various campaigns with institutions such as Reboot Britain, Global Entrepreneurs Week and Teachers Support Network to name just a few.
Wordia is also working in conjunction with The Independent Online, and the pieces that they film will be edited and played out via their live blog that is connected to partner websites and blogs via their embed-able video player widge, and of course to the social networks such as Bebo and Facebook.
Each day will start out with a video definition of a word by someone you’ll likely recognize if you follow blogging, digital rights or civil liberty issues at all. But this isn’t just about them, it’s about you too. Here’s how you can get involved:
- Post a video of the day’s word on your website.
- Dedicate a post on your blog about your definition of the day’s word.
- Upload your own video clip of your definition of the day’s word to our Wordia page.
- Twitter something about the day’s word, or write something about it on your social network profile.
- Promote free online speech in some way with a post each day dedicated to some issue that is being censored somewhere in the world.
- Post one of our banners on your website with a link back to us.
- Link to or copy this blog post and put it on your own website.
Bloggers are a diverse group of people from different cultural, political, educational backgrounds and with every perspective imaginable. But what unites us is the need to communicate and the desire to connect with others and share ideas. Openness is the commonality, and it’s difficult to imagine a nation with a better starting point of agreement.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!
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