The situation I was thrust into, and the expedient support (less than 24 hours) from bloggers around the world, is a noteworthy international event that deserves a lot of attention. Since I am not a glory hound, I decided it was time for someone else to get some of the attention.
I thought about Mike at Twenty Steps and his article about being overwhelmed by recent events. Since his site appeared to be a little sluggish, I emailed him before doing anything. It was a good idea, as he told me his server was having issues and wouldn't have been able to withstand a Digg attack.
I then focused on Garry at GarryConn.com and his summary of the events that took place with "Blogosphere Donates Over $3000 To A Blogger In Need". I knew his server could handle it, so I didn't ask before submitting it to Digg.
I took the information and then posted it over at BloggingZoom and then followed that by submitting that particular page to StumbleUpon. My thought was to use two social website services to promote the article on a third.
So far, there have been 7 zooms (including mine), 2 stumbles (including mine), and 8 diggs (including mine) and it's been over 4 hours. If a Digg submission doesn't get a lot of diggs rapidly (like within 8 hours), it will die a painful death and never make it to the front page. This one needs to make it to the front page, if for no other reason than to change the impression the general population of diggers has of bloggers.
This is a link to the Digg URL: Digg It Baby, Yeah!
Please pass the word. Let's make this rock!
Update: 5 1/2 hours and only 11 diggs. It looks like the diggers aren't buying it. This one may get buried before it has a chance.
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