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Blogathon 2003!

Posted by Ampersand | June 30th, 2003

I just wanted to point out that Blogathon 2003 is a bit under a month away. The Blogathon, for those of you not familiar with it, is an event in which hundreds of bloggers agree to blog for 24 hours straight, posting new updates at regular intervals (I think the standard is something like once every half-hour).

This is not only a fun way for bloggers to run themselves into a state of exhaustion and (readers hope) amusing incoherance; it’s a chance to raise money for charity, since readers can pledge to donate money to charities if the blogger makes it through the blogathon.

I probably won’t be blogathonning this year, since the blogathon begins on July 26th and I’m supposed to go to work on Sunday the 27th at the totally unreasonable hour of 8 in the a.m.. But if you’re looking for a blogger to sponsor, I’d highly recommend Eszter, who’s been on my blogroll for ages, and will use her blogathoning to benefit Planned Parenthood.

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  1. PG Writes:
    June 30th, 2003 at 1:20 pm

    Thanks for the heads-up — unless I develop a life in the next few weeks, I’ll probably participate.

    This is really short notice, but I was thinking that if people won’t be blogging much during the 4th of July weekend, it would be good to leave up posts, or links to posts, about your feelings re: the PATRIOT Act. Also information about how your Congressional representation voted at the time, how they feel about it now, etc.

    It would be great if we could get public discussion moving in the direction of repealing the most objectionable provisions two years before the official sunset (which Orrin Hatch is trying to remove, so PATRIOT can be eternal…)

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  2. Eszter Writes:
    June 30th, 2003 at 3:17 pm

    Amp, thanks for the plug! Now that I’ve defended my dissertation, I figured I could take some time and do other things.:) My plan is to spend some of the time blogging about reproductive rights issues so Planned Parenthood won’t just be my charity of choice but also a topic of the blog. It certainly won’t be the only topic, but I figured it should be one of them. I’ll see how that works out. You can check in periodically to see how I’m doing.:)

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  3. Elayne Riggs Writes:
    July 1st, 2003 at 11:20 am

    Hey, I’m planning to take that week (7/21-25) as a vacation week, I might be up for this! Can you supply more info, Barry? Is there a website coordinating this?

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  4. Ampersand Writes:
    July 1st, 2003 at 11:58 am

    Elayne, they don’t have a clear FAQ or anything, but if you poke around blogathon.org you should eventually find all the info you need.

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