When was the last time you participated in a group project? Problogger’s last writing group project, maybe? Or maybe the Daily Blog Tips project on traffic generation.
What do you think all these projects had in common? They all required you to use a computer (and more or less your brain, but we shall stick with the computers for now).
Shutdown Day launches a challenge to all of us: shutdown our computers for one day, on March 24th. I don’t know who is behind this, but if we take into consideration the countdown timer displayed on their page (-5 hours from Greenwich), I would say they are located on US Eastern Coast.
They claim it is one of the biggest collective experiments to take place on internet ever, and they are curious about what will it happen if we all take the challenge. Taking into consideration the traffic Shutdown Day site has so far, it is possible. If you want to vote (I can or I cannot), you can do it on the page, but you have to provide a name and an e-mail address, which makes me think this belongs to some wise guys wanting to build a huge list of subscribers.
Should you decide to take the challenge on March 24th, I invite you to watch this video, to find out some alternative uses for your laptop.
Shutdown Day was chosen to be a Saturday. This can positively influence its success. Nevertheless, I’m eager to find out how the Shutdown Day guys are going to count the people who did not switch on their computers that day.
What do you think? Would you give your computer an alternative use (see above video) for one day?
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