June 27, 2005
Become one of 50 bloggers going backstage to the Live 8 Concerts
The gracious folks from one.org have procured 10 backstage press passes to each of 5 of the following Live 8 concerts - Philadelphia, Paris, Rome, Berlin, and Tokyo. The folks at one.org and Live 8 believe that bloggers can help to shape the media and bring a new voice and perspective - and help to set the agenda - before the G8 conference in Scotland. (BTW, check out their new blog.
In addition, Richard Branson of Virgin Airlines has donated his airplane to fly the Live 8 crew from New York to Edinburgh and back, and up to five bloggers will be given the opportunity to fly to Edinburgh and back with the Live 8 group. The idea is to blog the trip, including the beginning of the G8 summit. The flight departs from JFK in New York at 7 p.m. on July 3; the same airplane will bring the bloggers and whoever else back to New York on July 7. Lodging in or near Edinburgh will also be provided.
So, here's what's up: This is a call to bloggers to give all of you the opportunity to get one of these backstage passes, and possibly on the flight to Edinburgh. Think of all the cool stuff you can do - set up a podcast and interview the bands, make a great photoblog, videoblog it, heck maybe you can end up playing air guitar in front of millions, who knows?
Seriously, the goal of this is also to get millions of bloggers posting about Live 8 - the fact is that there are 30,000 children dying in Africa every day - no one is reporting on it, and we aren't doing anything about it. So one of the goals is to help set the agenda of the mainstream media, and this represents a moment of pregnant possibility - for bloggers to create proactive change, not just reactive change based on other news events. It is our opportunity to help to shape the news conversation for the good of us all. And for our leaders to hear the voices of millions when they sit down at the G8 meeting.
So, here's what you need to do:
- Go to one.org and watch the video and sign the declaration. Get up to speed on what Live8 is all about.
- Go to live8.technorati.com and put one of the badges on your blog. It is pretty easy to do, you just need to add the code on the badge page to your weblog template.
- Go and read the posts about Live8 on Joe Trippi's blog and on Powerline - this is a nonpartisan effort.
- Pick the show that's nearest to you - and send an email to me, Joe, and to John with the following information:
- Your name and age
- Your blog name and URL
- Which show you want to go to (please only pick one show), and
- Your snail mail address (so we know where to send the show packets)
- Go and blog about Live 8, and tag your posts with the Live 8 tag (instructions on how to do this are here). You've got to put the badge up on your blog and have posted at least once about Live 8 with the tag to get selected.
- Keep an eye on your mailbox. Given the incredible time crunch, we'll let you know what's up no later than Thursday June 30th.
- Tell all your friends. The goal here is to get 100,000 blog posts out before the G8 summit, and to get as many people out there blogging about Live 8, third world debt relief, the plight of the hungry and poor everywhere and what we can do about it.
There may be additional credentials that we can get from the Live 8 people, and Joe, John, and I are going to work our butts off to get credentials for the other shows as well, including Toronto and the shows in Great Britain. More to come. In the meantime, please go out and listen, read, and blog - together perhaps we can help to shift the conversation, and influence country policies to help to make poverty history.
Technorati Tags: live8, live8 berlin, live8 paris, live8 philly, live8 rome, live8 tokyo, tags, technorati, wow
Posted by dsifry at June 27, 2005 10:03 PM | TrackBack | View blog reactionsHi there,
Please visit my blog space which has ideas on how to get governments to substantially contribute to overseas aid programs, in a step to finally make poverty history. However, it needs support from people like you in order for it to happen.
Thanks for your time,
Alex
http://helpmakepovertyhistory.blogspot.com/
Posted by: alex at June 28, 2005 3:43 AM日本語で読みたい方はこちら：
http://trj.weblogs.jp/blog/2005/06/live8_1e65.html
Posted by: Technorati Japan at June 28, 2005 7:47 AMDon't you have trackbaks anymore Dave ? Just added the badges...
Posted by: Loic at June 28, 2005 12:49 PMI did it too... I said in my note (in french sorry) that it was interesting to use Technorati as a tool to give mobilisation more visibility and efficiency, i hope.
Posted by: Xavier at June 28, 2005 5:49 PMPlease get the London concert involved, it'd be fantastic...
Posted by: Ron Atkinson at June 29, 2005 12:50 PMWe have four folks blogging from backstage in Philly so whoever gets tickets for Philly ping me!
We're blogging it at http://www.live8insider.com, so if you want to help with the site ping me and we'll set you up!
best
jason at weblogsinc dot com
Posted by: Jason at June 29, 2005 4:13 PMThe sign up form on one.org ist broken (.NET error)...
Posted by: Juerg Stuker at June 30, 2005 4:02 AMJust to let you know about Fotolia.com implication in France and US and Spain
http://blog.fotolia.com
(first issue about live8 on the french part, click the flag ;) )
nicolas
Posted by: Nicolas at June 30, 2005 8:40 AMDear sir or madam.
Could you please forward this letter to all people involved in Live8 and the one campaign as it is an overriding factor concerning us all
Action not years of deliberation is what is needed NOW and for collective action we must all be aware of the true situation regarding our environment
Changes must take place NOW in order to secure a future that is sustainable.
Fellow Earthling.
With regard to the LIVE8;
Though it is true that many thousands of children are dying needlessly each day and something has to be done about it there is an equally pressing issue facing the whole planet together "Global warming".
The issues of global warming have been persistently argued by politicians and green activists for many years now whilst all the time emissions have not reduced significantly to make any real difference. Recent scientific experiments have shown that not only are the ice caps melting due to holes in the ozone layer but the oceans of the world are becoming more acidic. The time scale for all of this is very small and there are serious questions as to whether the sea life will have enough time to evolve to deal with these increased acidity levels. I recently sent a letter to the Prime Minister Tony Blair urging him to seriously consider creating a production line of hydrogen vehicles available to the general public in order to change car emissions; further to this I added that since the industrial revolution we have been using fossil fuels to drive a vast majority of engineering and production. It is now time to redesign our technology to eradicate all forms of machinery that use fossil fuels and to press forward with new design based on the hydrogen engine where H2O is the only bi-product. If we save millions of lives it will be for naught if we continue to make no real lasting changes to the way we live with our environment.
For if nothing is done within the next 5 years we will have crossed the line too far to come back and the whole planet will eventually fade and die. So I urge all those who feel a sense of duty and consciousness to make sure that the leaders of the G8 make some serious lasting commitment to radically change the way we power our systems today with as much urgency as if the planet were to be hit by a meteorite then maybe and only maybe there might be enough time to save not only all endangered species but also the human race.
Yours sincerely
radfax Bsc
Hi David. Still no news from Italian Live8 in Rome, about my pass. I've got another one, thanks to some friends, but not for the backstage.
Have you got any contacts?
Posted by: Alberto Puliafito at July 1, 2005 8:55 AMAlthough well intentioned the Television coverage in the States of Live 8 was absolutely horrible. Cutting away from Pink Floyd in the middle of a song several times not only angered me but turned me off to the whole Live 8 concept. Pink Floyd was not the only artist abruptly cut off... it was done to Elton John, Maroon 5, Coldplay, Bon Jovi... very annoying. The more I think about it the more I say F*&^ Live 8.
Doug
