OneWebDay

My name is Ali; I am artist working in Poland. Last 8 July I celebrated my 31st birth date by lunching art project; The Colorful Days, in which I paint dates.

I have also lunched special editions of paintings to celebrate memorable international days/dates. My celebration of first OneWebDay came in announcing some web projects, including special painting. I named it OneWebDay, as memorable for the first OneWebDay.

The blue 22 September – OneWebDay – is one in kind. 60% of money will go to OWD organization after selling the painting in online auction. Other objective is to highlight the importance of web to art, and the effect of art on web. So please let us make success for the OneWebDay piece of art.

I also proposed other idea to take part in raising money for OneWebDay. Special panting series of Web and HTML tags; a single tag in each painting. Susan approved the idea and said fund coming form this will be used in financing second OneWebDay in 2007.

The name “OneWeb Tags” goes for this series. These paintings will be as memories from first OneWebDay and also for funding second OneWebDay. So please support OneWebDay by owning a memory from its first celebration, and enjoy the Web.

Any suggestions are welcome, contact info is: tags[at]thecolorfuldays.com.

Nice post here:

In honor of OneWebDay, here are a few stories from the TP Wire Service, posted this week, that show the kind of impact the web has, and might have in the future, on our lives.

Jobs
The Jobs of Web 2.0

Communication
Why Fly When You Can Web Conference?

Education
Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system

The Future
Recognizing Tomorrow’s Hot Ideas Today

The Now
Here are two very innovative ways of chronicling your life:
Waymarkr
Umbrella Photo Browser

Lots of pictures on flickr.com about (or related to) OneWebDay here.

The webshots visualization is still under development — you can see pictures there by going here.

Looking forward to seeing what all of these pictures look like together.

Chuck in Arizona writes about OneWebDay here.

Skype Journal writes about OneWebDay.

A post from Helsinki here.

WikiHow shows how here.

Blog post about what would happen to Craig Newmark if the web disappeared from the Palm Beach Post.

And from Nicola Brown in Devon, England:

Without the world wide web I would not

It has opened up my life to the world – or is that visa- versa?

Nice set of photos here.

We’re getting a lot of email from people who would like to volunteer to run OneWebDay 2007 where they live.

Just yesterday, we heard from Oregon, Iraq, Fredericton (Canada), India, Syria, Brazil, and Egypt.

Keep these messages coming — we’ll keep track and try to help get people in touch with one another. Don’t forget the wiki as a planning tool.

We heard from Naples yesterday. They said that OneWebDay was a big success. Articles are here and here.

Sofia celebrants also wrote to us. They had a very successful press conference, involving two television broadcast reporters, some print media, a famous blogger in Bulgaria, and a reporter from the major Bulgarian news agency (BTA). They also had a “web meeting” in the evening (gathering of the Web-related people in Bulgaria) dedicated to discussing OWD and the web. Pictures are here. They’ll keep their OWD web site growing throughout the year.

Red Herring article about the worldwide celebration is here.

Nice picture of Craig Newmark here, together with a link to an article about his talk with law students at Cardozo in New York City in celebration of OneWebDay.

From ElectricNews.net, in Ireland, a post celebrating new things bloggers are up to.

And from Jorge Arango:

Wow, what a great idea: a day devoted to celebrating the web, modeled after earth day.

So thank you to Tim Berners-Lee and all the other people responsible for creating the web. Let’s remember what it was like before the web existed; let us not take it for granted. And above all, let’s do our part to make sure that our little corners of the web add value, beauty, and intelligence to the world.

There are pictures from the Belgrade and London celebrations here (thanks to Desiree Miloschevic). Desiree says that “the RTS, Yugoslav Radio and Television Station came and filmed the One-Web-Day lectures at the Rex Cinema” in Belgrade. So we’ll look forward to seeing the footage!

Mary Hodder’s picture of the pre-meeting before the Lord Mayor of London showed up for OneWebDay is here. We suspect that Mary took a video or two and we’ll link to them when they’re available.

There’s a BBC story here.

Two videos from OWD Tokyo here and here.

Video messages for OneWebDay from performers on BlogTV, a TV program Joi Ito and Fumi Yamazaki are doing in Tokyo here, here, here, and here.

Fumi’s OneWebDay shots from SecondLife are here.