I was hoping this would happen for quite some time…
It appears that another site has decided to adopt their own version of Comment Love. Didn’t You Hear has added a feature called Comment Charity. The program is very similar to the one here – for every comment, 50 cents is donated to charity. For Didn’t You Hear, the comment donations go to The Global Fund, a organization fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. If you ask me, that is a pretty worthwhile cause. But, hey, don’t take my word for it, read up about what Didn’t You Hear is doing from their announcement of the program. May I add that the site is quite lovely, I am already a subscriber and regular reader.
I know that people in the creative field, including bloggers, can be very defensive and protective of their creation. For bloggers, unique content and features are extremely important to their “success”. All the time, we see people “calling out” others who they allege copy or steal their idea. I usually am not too uptight about people “borrowing” my work or ideas. In this case in particular, I am absolutely ecstatic that another blogger has decided to take on a project like this. In fact, I hope more people do the same. Comment Love is an idea which I think is too promising to hold on to.
The Discussion
3 Comments on “Comment Love Spotting”Kellie
9.03.2007 1:20 pmWow, Congrats to ‘Didn’t You Hear’! I will definitely check out that blog’s content.
I hope other websites will develop a similar project to encourage user participation.
somerandomdude
9.03.2007 1:45 pmI hope so as well. It really is such an easy thing to do and it can make a serious difference.
Technorati says it currently tracks 70.9 million blogs – I am positive that there are more than that floating around, but let’s use that number for now. If 0.1% of the blogs (7,090) took on some program such as this and generated only $20 a month, $141,800 would be generated each month – totaling $1,701,600 a year.
So yeah, I really hope more blogs start jumping on this bandwagon. Amazing things could happen.
Cory OBrien
9.03.2007 9:51 pmHey Some Random Dude readers, Cory here from Didn’t You Hear,
I just wanted to say thanks to all of you for your support of the Comment Charity idea. I thought the Comment Love program on Some Random Dude was such a good idea, I knew I had to do something like it. Thanks again to SRD for letting me “borrow” the idea.
While I’ve done a few charity related things with my blog in the past, this was the first time I’ve been able to put something long term into effect. I agree with SRD, if we can just get more blogs to jump on board, the blogging community could really start to make a difference.
I hope you all enjoy the content that I put on my site, and I’d love to see some of you commenting for charity at DYH. A few words can go a long way to making a difference, and amazing things can happen.