Blog Marathon *Idea V.0.1*
April 27th, 2004 @ 2:45 am by SnorbufarOK, so I was reading some stuff here just now and it got me thinking, and I that is rare thing as of lately. So here is the idea:
Most of you have probabally heard of the 38 hour famine. Basically what it is, is that you don’t sleep or eat (just drink liquids) for 38 hours. You usually do this in a group of people, as an organized event. Why do you do this? Well you get sponsors to pay a certain amount for each hour that you do it. All money earned goes to starving kids in 3rd-world countries.
Well here is my Geek-ersized idea of it: The rules still apply that you cannot eat or sleep. However, this one you will sit at your computer the whole time. Here you will post in your blog every 30 minutes (to verify how awake you are) and you will have a webcam on (verification that you don’t eat). This will happen for 38 hours.
Now, I’m not really sure why it is that we would do this, but it wouldn’t be for starving kids in 3rd-world countries (well I guess it could be). I was thinking along the lines of raising money for poorer schools or something to bring technology to kids who can’t afford it.
I think that’s about it on my idea here. Any and All comments and ideas are welcome. Let me rephrase that: “Please give me some ideas on this!” That’s better. OK, that is it for now.
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Blog Marathon *Idea V.0.1*, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
Daniel
June 22nd, 2008
Daniel, there is some good news: When I first said this I wasn’t aware of Blogathon. They’re pretty much the exact idea I had. Check out Blogathon.org for some info on how they do it.
Eggo
June 23rd, 2008