Celebrate Blog Day with a Global Voices twist! · Global Voices
Rebecca MacKinnon

Israeli blogger Nir Ofir, who conceived and organized Blog Day last year, recently wrote:
On these days, of war in the middle east, I would like to remind you all that BlogDay is a celebration of people and for people. It is a celebration of the ability to visit blogs that are different from our own culture, point of view and attitude and it is a celebration of free content written by people like you and me. Wars, in the other hand, are being foughtby governments. Let us not let governments to stop the celebration of Internet, Blogging and democracy.
Click here to get badges to show your support for Blog Day. To celebrate the day, all you need to do is blog, of course. Here are Nir's instructions:
In one long moment In August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post a recommendation of 5 new Blogs, Preferably, Blogs different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog surfers will find themselves leaping and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers.
BlogDay posting instructions:
1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending on them on BlogDay 2005
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link: http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2006 and a link to BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org
In advance of that day, we at Global Voices would like to ask our community to help fellow bloggers in different countries get to know you better. We're finding that people in different countries blog for different reasons, and that blogospheres in different places have developed different kinds of relationships with the rest of their culture, politics, and mainstream media. We'd like to help people understand you and your region's blogosphere better. So if you have the time, please help us do this by writing a post (or several if you like) before August 31st, answering some or all of the following questions:
When you're done, please send a trackback to this post, or leave a link to your post in the comments section of this post. If you don't have a blog but have views about the state of blogs and blogging in your country, please feel free to leave a comment. On the eve of Blog Day, we'll do a post or two summarizing, quoting, and linking to what you said.