Blog Action Day comes around again, and in 2009 the topic is climate change.

Something like 7532 blogs from 139 countries with a combined readership of 11480067 readers and rising are coordinated on one day to write about a common topic in the hope of building sufficient critical mass to make an impact on overall awareness of the issue.

Here is a sample to start off with, I’ll be adding more as Blog Action Day progresses:

• When The Waters Rise – A Song for Blog Action Day
• Gordon Brown’s blog on climate change
• Blog Action Day Havering Folk Club
• Classroom Displays – Climate Change
• Linda Hartley – Blog Action Day
• Blog Action Day on Twitter
• Blog Action Day – from internet to live

or follow tag #BAD09

photo credit: Rob Enslin

Save the Internet

Originally uploaded by Squirmelia

In Australia, the government want to introduce compulsory internet censorship.

Of course we already have this in the UK since 2004

The Job Culture isn’t just jobs, work, and business institutions. It’s a comprehensive way of life in which millions of people place institutional paid employment at the center of their world.

�What do you do?� is immediately understood to mean, �What kind of paid employment do you have?�

In the Job Culture, family life, recreation, deep personal interests, and desires all must be structured around and subordinated to The Job.

Even things like how we eat (fast foods), how we spend our leisure time (TV, shopping) and how we save for a rainy day (investing in stocks and bonds) are dictated by a culture of job holding and corporate institutions.

Our conversations, our holidays, our dress, our choice of neighborhood, choice of vehicle, health-care options, and a thousand other things are all dictated by one central force: The Holy Job.

This is normal? No, this is whacko. This is not the way human beings evolved to live.