[Web4lib] One Web Day

[Leo Robert Klein]

You're right, if someone hasn't heard about the web by now, there's 
little a OneWebDay can do about it.  That's not the idea.

As I mentioned in an earlier quote:

"The essence of OneWebDay is to create a global constituency that thinks 
of itself as responsible for the future of the internet, so that when 
negative things happen (censorship, restricted access, heavy-handed law 
enforcement control) people will act."  http://www.onewebday.org/?p=228

Everyone is free to interpret the day as they wish.  I admit it's pretty 
open ended.

But as our dependence on the Web, as you point out, becomes increasingly 
  important, so then do issues of access/bandwidth and ownership of the 
pipes.

I'm just not sure how successful a 'OneNetNeutralityDay' or a 
'OneStopFilteringInLibrariesDay' would be.

So the idea is to take a positive approach to the medium.

Reason to celebrate, I say.

LEO

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Richard Wiggins wrote:
> Not to rain on the parade, but isn't the Web (and the Internet, which it is
> distinct from, though not treated as such popularly) now a part of the
> fabric of life?  It's used for good and for ill by millions if not billions
> worldwide.
> 
> To me, in the year 2007, this is almost as quaint as having "One Cell Phone
> Day" or "One Fax Machine Day."  The Web, at least for anyone who can read
> this message, is factored into daily life.
> 
> It is 2007.  The Web revolution began in 1993.  (TimBL claims earlier but I
> date it to the arrival of practical browsers and servers from NCSA, and
> images in HTML.) Anyone entering college at age 18 today literally grew up
> with the Web.
> 
> The Web is too much a part of our lives in 2007 for a 1996 "Cool Site of the
> Day" mentality. The Web is us. ("We are the Web"?)  If I were to participate
> in a "Day" I'd rather it be a cause -- support your local library, rising
> cost of e-journals, climate change, poverty, disease, peace, even preserving
> digital legacy. The Web causes many things to be possible, but it isn't
> itself a cause.
> 
> /rich