Blogrolling for Change
April 02, 2008 01:25 p.m. by Change Congress StaffWhen I first heard about Change Congress, my immediate reaction was, "it's about time." As Lawrence Lessig pointed out in the powerpoint slide he used to introduce the organization, the issues that Change Congress tackles, even if they may not seem like the most important issues, are the first ones. Finally there was an organization that was going to allow for unprecedented interconnectedness between people who were concerned about the sorry state of this country's policy-making apparatus.
In that spirit, I started talking to some friends about ways to help spread the word and create incentives for websites to promote Change Congress. What we came up with was Blogrolling for Change, the rules of which are explained here.
The idea is simple: Say you have a website or a blog. If you write a page or post with the Change Congress button and a couple paragraphs explaining why you support Change Congress, you can then email or post to us and we'll add it to our del.icio.us account and send you the HTML to add the del.icio.us links to your site. That way, each Change Congress post will show up on each website.
It's a relatively modest way of promoting Change Congress, but our hope as the websites signed on to Blogrolling for Change begin to support each other with increased traffic and people who didn't already know about Change Congress start to see that familiar button on more and more websites, the program will take on a life of its own. After all, this is an issue that a huge majority of Americans, liberal and conservative alike, should be able to agree on - the tricky part is just raising awareness of how important the problem is first.
If you would like to get your website on the Blogrolling for Change blogroll, don't hesitate to email me.
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