Blog Action Day - thousands blogging about poverty

In the lead up to this years Stand Up event, over 9,000 bloggers with an estimated readership near 11,000,000 people, are writing posts about poverty today. Bloggers around the world are submitting everything from their written thoughts to pictures, podcasts, and videos as part of Blog Action Day - hoping to spark a global conversation about poverty.

According to Blog Action Day, "Out of this discussion naturally flow actions, advice, ideas, plans, and empowerment. In 2007 on the theme of the Environment, we saw bloggers running environmental experiments, detailing innovative ideas on creating sustainable practices and focusing audience’s attentions on organizations and companies promoting green agendas. In 2008 we aim to again focus the blogging community’s energies and passions, this time on the mammoth issue of global poverty."

A photo from participating Blog Action Day website Someone Once Told Me.

As over 1% of the worlds population prepares to 'Stand Up and Take Action' this Friday, take some time to learn about what the world's bloggers are writing, podcasting, and vlogging about what Archbishop Tutu called "one of the greatest injustices and human rights abuses in human history - extreme poverty".