Spark Armada by Nir Ofir

Happy BlogDay!

The big day is here! (its after midnight in Israel now)

Organizing BlogDay was a fun, interesting, challenging and sometimes frustrating. I want to thank every Blogger that helped me and I will be happy if some more crazy dreaming people like me will offer their help for building the BlogDay 2006 project that will start tommorow.

My BlogDay recommendations are:

Innovation WebLog: Cool content about innovation, creativity, Mind Maps, thinking and more. This blog can really help a person/innovator to upgrade his brain with new ways of thinking

Loose Wire: The Blog of Jeremy Wagstaff a technology columnist with the Asian and online Wall Street Journals.

Jake Tracey : designer and developer from Newcastle, Australia. "For now, I am interested in new web applications, design, usability and marketing".

MobHappy: Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology

Quick Online Tips : Smart tips, tools and news for Bloggers. Found it on Goolge.

I will keep you updated about my BlogDay experience and the results later.

Tag: BlogDay2005

WebSite: BlogDay.org

May your blogrolls gather no moss

What a great title for a BlogDay post by Peter Griffin. Peter, may I use it for the official BlogDay Bless?

Anyway, some BlogDay News:

Me and Adam from wikispaces had a little chat about BlogDay and his wonderfull wiki platform which I use to manage this global project. This project made me discover the advantages of a Wiki platform for these kind of project and I enjoyed using just like I did when I discovered geocities back in 1996.

Mark, the Editor of the Brazilian RevistaParadoxo.com made an article about BlogDay and Blogs here

The BIG NEWS is that Tommorow is BlogDay and I'm excited! do you?

BlogDay Citation Trend by IceRocket

Today, 2 days before BlogDay, The IceRocket Citation trend diagram is showing that (only) 0.0045 present of blogs mentioned BlogDay.

The diagram shows that on the day Google launched "Google Talk", 0.6 present of blogs mentioned it.

I checked the word "school" and was amazed by the results:  3-8 present of blogs are mentioning this term all the time!"Iraq" was mentioned by 0.3-0.9 presents in the last two months.

What do you think the trend diagram will show on September 1st?

Taiwan BlogDay Meetup

Cheng Vista wrote me that Yam, a blog operator from Taiwan, is holding a Blogday meetup at August 31st  in Taipei. Here are the details:

Taipei Artist Village │ 2F No.7 Peiping East Rd.,Taipei, Taiwan
Time: 31, August 2005 PM 6:15 - 21:00
Contact: vista_cheng@staff.yam.com

It seems that BlogDay is relatively big in Taiwan. It seems that BlogDay is Big in small blog networks that pass information quicker and with more enthusiasm.

Thanks Cheng! Don't forget to tell me how was the meetup.

BlogDay Media Recognitoin?

The Indianapolis Star is the first media organization out of the Blogosphere that wrote about BlogDay.

Via Icerocket]

BlogDay in Pakistan

Look who is celebrating BlogDay in Pakistan, 124 Blogs!

Thanks Shirazi

Engines On!

Eight days till BlogDay!  Have you found 5 Blogs for your BlogDay post? I already found some for my English Blog but haven’t started looking for good Hebrew Blogs for my other Blog.

On the last few months I have “met” some great bloggers from all over the world. They are great because they agreed to help me in this crazy project without asking for anything back. Without asking any questions. I thank them for the support and I hope many more will come and help me re-create BlogDay in 2006.

Every morning, every day,  just before brushing my teeth I went to my computer and found myself amazed by the acceptance, the excitement and the distribution of the BlogDay Buzz in Asia and in Europe in any language. The emails, the track backs, the comments and the new posts about BlogDay made me understand that the BlogDay concept is good for the bloggers. Everywhere. I am a little disappointed from the Buzz BlogDay made in the United States. Probably, because 3108 is not August 31^st by the American format.

Today, 8 days before the first BlogDay and 14,000 page views in Blogday.org I still do not believe that my investment of 38 Dollars for the Domain Name and a lot of “white nights” got BlogDay to be a reality.  The simple concept, the real story behind the creation of BlogDay and the unique logo gave BlogDay a lot of spreading the word power but the real power is coming from the bloggers that are taking the BlogDay concept and hugging it and spreading the word about their new holiday.

My full conclusion about BlogDay 2005 will come after the celebration.

Celebrate!

Nir.

<a href="http://blogs.icerocket.com/tag/BlogDay2005 rel="tag">BlogDay2005</a>

Technorati is Bad for Koreans

Today I asked Hof, the korean guy that wrote about Blogday to translate the BlogDay description to Korean so I can put it in BlogDay website.

Hof agreed to do it but look what he wrote me about Korean an Technorati:

dear Nir Ofir

as I wrote in my blog, there are some problem.

most of (over 5 milion) Korean blogger is written in EUC-KR character set. because, EVERY blog service company support only euc-kr.

I guess there are only under 200 users using UTF-8 character set.

as you know, technorati does not support EUC-KR charset.

if Korean user who are using EUC-KR send a ping to technorati. there will be covered with all broken character. you can find how it look like,  at http://www.technorati.com/tag/KoreaTest

I hope that the people of technorati will fix it very soon so Korean Bloggers can participate in BlogDay2005

BlogDay Guest Map

Where are you blogging from?

what bloggers are your neighbors?

are you supporting BlogDay?

who else?

Sign the BlogDay GuestMap!

BlogDay at Hotel Paris Rive Gauche

Hotel Paris Rive Gauche will celebrate BlogDay.

thank you for your support! Maybe the hotel should offer its visitors to post BlogDay post too?

:-)

BTW. I got the first post from Korean Blog here

a lot of Taiwanese blogs are writing about blogday and I got some info that they are arranging a big meetup in that day.

Aussie Bloggers have a meetup too.

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Help! Help me translate BlogDay description to your language