{"id":1365,"date":"2003-07-03T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2003-07-04T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/03\/blogathon-2003\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:59:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:59:30","slug":"blogathon-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/03\/blogathon-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14297,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.justlikeadream.com\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/000031.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312203704\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.justlikeadream.com\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/000031.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 09:53:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 09:53:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14240,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.blogathon.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251107112253\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.blogathon.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 19:00:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:49:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:47:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:47:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9826,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amnesty.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150222091206\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.amnesty.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amnesty.org\\\/en\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 05:05:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 17:35:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 23:35:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 23:35:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14260,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.blogathon.org\\\/Pledge.php?p=468&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>After being prompted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justlikeadream.com\/mt\/archives\/000031.html\" title=\"Blogathon Charity\">D<\/a>, I&#8217;ve signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/\" title=\"Blogathon 2003\">Blogathon 2003<\/a>. 24 hours of weblogging, raising money for charity (in my case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/\" title=\"Amnesty International\">Amnesty International<\/a>)! Of course, I won&#8217;t raise any money if I&#8217;m not sponsored&#8230;so won&#8217;t you be so kind as to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/Pledge.php?p=468\" title=\"Sponsor The Long Letter\">sponsor me<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>So what exactly is a &#8220;blogathon&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  First some terminology: &#8220;blog&#8221; is a shortened version of &#8220;weblog&#8221; which is a frequently updated personal website. Most blogs have date stamps on the entries, and consist of links and commentary.<\/p>\n<p>  Now, remember when you were in school and you would bowl for charity? And for every pin you knocked down you got, say, ten cents? Or run for a dollar a mile? During the Blogathon, people update their websites every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. For this, they collect sponsorships. Pledges can be a flat donation, or a certain amount for every hour the blogger manages to stay awake.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>So how exactly does this work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  Easy: you sign up to sponsor a blogger. On July 26th, watch your blogger go for 24 hours straight. When the event is over, you&#8217;ll receive an email asking you to donate directly to the charity for which your participant was blogging.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, to see if I can pull an all-nighter &#8212; I haven&#8217;t done that in years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being prompted by D, I&#8217;ve signed up for Blogathon 2003. 24 hours of weblogging, raising money for charity (in my case, Amnesty International)! Of course, I won&#8217;t raise any money if I&#8217;m not sponsored&hellip;so won&#8217;t you be so kind as to sponsor me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[599],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}