There are about eight days left for BlogDay 2006. BlogDay is an initiative I heartily support, created with the idea that there should be at least one day dedicated to knowing bloggers from other parts of the world, with different interests. The idea of BlogDay then is, to post at least links to five new blogs on that day for you to explore.

I see this kind of initiative as a great way to countering some of the less democratizing aspects of the web: first, the ‘Daily Me’ as suggested by Prof. Cass Sunstein: the idea that we end up only reading those websites that conform to our worldview, because the internet is so customizable, and second, the power law distribution as suggested by Prof. Clay Shirky: the idea that we end up only reading those websites that everybody else keeps linking to, or in terms of blogs, the so-called A-list bloggers.

In short: there are so many interesting blogs out there! Why keep reading the same ones over and over again?

PS: I was listed as one of her five blogs for BlogDay last year, by Qadira.