One Web Day
"인터넷의 하루(eharu616)"라는 프로젝트를 아시나요?! 매년 6월 16일, 그 날의 인터넷 역사를 자발적으로 기록하는 행사인데, 그동안 블로거 여러분들이 활발하게 참여해주셨으니 잘 아시리라고 생각합니다. (예를 들면, 2006년 6월 16일의 "넥슨 첫 화면" 같은 아이템들이 저장되어 있지요. 10년 뒤에 보면 촌스럽게 느껴지겠죠?!)
이 프로젝트에서 영감을 얻어, One Web Day(OWD)라는 전세계적인 인터넷 역사 기록 프로젝트가 시작되었고, 올해도 역시 9월 22일에 진행된다고 하네요. 최근 포스트를 보니 OWD 축하행사가 SecondLife에서도 열린다고... (재미있겠다!) 현실세계(?)에서는 LA에서 축하행사가 개최될 예정이라고 합니다.
미국, 캐나다, 영국, 슬로베니아, 필리핀, 타이완, 일본, 불가리아, 스리랑카, 오스트리아 등에서 참여 의사를 밝혀왔다고 합니다. 어느새 대규모 프로젝트가 되었네요. 이미지들은 특히 CNET의 Webshots를 통해 공유될 예정이라고.
* 아래는 메일로 받은 보도자료입니다.
OneWebDay, “Earth Day for the Web,” First Global Holiday to Celebrate How the Web Has Changed Our Lives Taking Place Sept. 22, 2006
Largest Global Online Photo Collaboration and Other OneWebDay Projects Planned
New York, NY--Sept. 18, 2006--OneWebDay (www.onewebday.org), an “Earth Day for the Web,” the first global holiday to celebrate the web and how it has changed our lives, is planned for September 22, 2006 (and every September 22 thereafter). As with Earth Day--an inspiration and model for OneWebDay--it’s up to individuals, organizations and communities to decide how to celebrate.
OneWebDay is planning to create an historic event to mark the launch of OneWebDay by facilitating the largest global online photo collaboration resulting in a visualization of the web made up of photos posted by millions of people around the world. This visualization will show the power of online collaboration. OneWebDay is working with CNET Networks' Webshots (www.webshots.com), a global photo-sharing community, to make it easy for web users globally to contribute a digital photo and label it with “onewebday.”
"The internet has become such a ubiquitous force in our lives that it’s easy to forget how it has changed the world. We shouldn’t take the Internet for granted, and we should do everything we can to make it more visible to people around the globe. OneWebDay provides an opportunity to celebrate the web both online and in public events in cities around the world,” said Susan Crawford, associate professor at the Cardozo School of Law, who initiated OneWebDay. “We're delighted to be working with CNET’s Webshots on this exciting project to have people around the globe post their photos and have these photos become part of a giant collage.”
“When people around the globe can ‘see’ the web, we'll think about how the web helps humans to work together and how much it means to us. This big picture is a way of seeing the web as the human space that it is,” Crawford added.
Internet pioneers, organizations and companies are planning events around the world.
In New York, Craig Newmark of craigslist fame; Scott Heiferman, co-founder of Meetup and Fotolog; Gale Brewer, NYC City Council member; and Drew Schutte, publisher, Wired magazine, will talk about how the Internet is changing people's lives every day. The event, sponsored by Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Union Square Ventures, DFJGotham and Cardozo Law School, will take place on Friday, Sept. 22, Noon to 2 p.m. ET, at The Battery, near Castle Clinton, in the park at the southern tip of Manhattan. "http://www.onewebday.org/wiki
Events have also been scheduled in Austin, TX ; Boston, MA; All over Canada; Champaign-Urbana, IL; Chicago, IL; London and other places in the UK; Naples, Italy; New York; Philippines; San Francisco, CA; Slovenia; Sofia, Bulgaria ; Sri Lanka; Taipei; Taiwan; Tokyo, Japan; Vienna, Austria; Westport, CT
Retrieved from "http://www.onewebday.org/wiki
In addition to the webshots.com giant collage, online activities in conjunction with OneWebDay include:
- Making videos in honor of OneWebDay and posting them on blip.tv — tagged “onewebday”. They will be part of a OneWebDay presentation on Dabble.com.
- A contest for users to talk about the creative ways they’ve used craigslist (submissions go to volunteer@onewebday.org
- Encouraging users to take one web-related action that helps someone else: Teaching someone how to edit a wiki, start a blog, or post a picture online; or adding computers and connectivity at local senior centers; or by creating more wireless hotspots.
OneWebDay, Inc. has been formed and is seeking nonprofit status. It has an independent Board of Directions. The Board includes: A-list bloggers (Doc Searls, David Weinberger, David Isenberg, Mary Hodder), business executives (Don Telage, David Johnson, Rick Whitt), a NYC PR person (Renee Edelman, Edelman), a key researcher (Gregg Vesonder, AT&T), and a former state AG (Jim Tierney, Maine). Its president, Susan Crawford, is committed to working on this holiday for the next 10 years. OneWebDay is supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Cardozo Law School, Union Square Ventures, Edelman, DFJGotham, CIRA, and individuals.
