My oh my, what a week it’s been….
Silence Is The Enemy has gone international with well over 130 posts in many languages from all sorts of places and people. I’ve had trouble keeping track of everyone involved in the coalition, so if you don’t see your blog listed here, email me. The facebook group will soon surpass 4,000 members and our official website is close to launch.
In addition, the number of bloggers donating revenue from June to Doctors Without Borders grows, and since income is determined by traffic, continue contributing with every click to:
The Intersection
On Becoming A Domestic And Laboratory Goddess
Aetiology
Neurotopia
Bioephemera
The Questionable Authority
Adventures in Ethics and Science
DrugMonkey
Blog Of The Moderate Left
Seattle Grassroots Examiner
the rugbyologist
Sciencewomen
Day 5 and the storm against silence has commenced… It’s time to make some noise. Speak out.
You know what to do.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Bravo!
This may be a naive question…but I usually read blogs via the RSS feed. Does that count toward the ‘clicks’? Or does one need to access the blog’s website to actually count?
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June 6th, 2009 at 3:03 am
Here’s my understanding of the way blog revenue works: If the feed has ads then views of those bring money, however Discovery Mag blogs don’t have ads in the feeds so you need to visit the page. Science Blogs has ads in the feeds so feed views (and ad clicks in them ) will bring $ but probably not quite as much as an actual page visit.
June 6th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Noadi’s got it–revenue is raised by visiting the page. Thanks for supporting our initiative!
June 7th, 2009 at 2:45 am
I am sure that thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands?) of people have heard of this so far. That is quite an accomplishment. But so what? Awareness is overrated. Everyone knows about Darfur by now; how many lives has all that awareness saved? How many rapes is this project going to prevent?
Or like so many things, is this just a way for us to sleep better at night, deluding ourselves that we’re good people and have done our part? A way to assuage the guilt that comes from our horribly over-privileged and comfortable lives? We write our blogs and donate some measly amount, and then go our merry ways, living our lives, being with our families and friends in our comfortable homes, feeling good about ourselves, while the rapes and the killings go on and on.
June 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
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