An old friend of mine once had a postcard with the slogan 'Use your vote - u know they will' coupled with a picture of a homophobe with a placard. On a similar note several of Al Qaida related sites have been taken down, probably by US intelligence services, though that would be illegal.... Anway, the internet is a rich source for activism. Its key features of (now ever decreasing) anonymity, range of reach and breadth of depth means you can find someone, somewhere who agrees with you even if its about what the rightful colour of a amazonian poisoned arrow frogs shold be, or more commonly about the best place to buy an Ipod. Either way these are often receptive or 1-1 conversations. Even forums which allow many users to post are little more than a modern way of leaving a urine trail across the internet.

Ah But!

"The point is not just to understand the world but to change it."

Most of us work to live, while some live to work we still infuse each sphere of our lives with our personality as much as we think is appropriate. Each of us is aware of the time we have on the earth and wish to spend some of it living out our own take on existance as we see fit. Many of use the internet to chat, arrange and share various things but few of use the internet to contribure to the wider world. We just use the net to find different, pre-determined points of reality to latch on to. A virtual tube that connects us directly to the info we seek, be it in airlines in spain or friends in Nepal.

I ask you to find something via the internet, that requires the internet, that you can do to contribute something towards something that is greater than those around and yourself.  We each have skills and knowledge
Good examples would be:

Become a Wikipedia editor! - Requirements - Internet, brain, lack of axe to grind
Become a Gutenberg Proof reader - Compare scanned pages to text and proof read so that out-of-copyright books can be re-published for download, for FREE! FOREVER!

Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life -SETI- allows you to download programs that speed up the decoding of all sorts of space noise, find an alien, win a cuddly toy...
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Leave a comment below or email me with your on-line 2nd job or fav pastime and I'll plug it. :)