So Elaine writes over at Lessig’s blog about “OneWebDay“:
The goal of OneWebDay is to make the Web, and our individual connection to it, visible — so that we don’t take it for granted. We make progress when we make things visible.
What does that mean, really. For sure, I am just as excited as the next person about the social benefits the Internet can bring if used and protected, but have you see this website, and check out this button, isn’t just a bit too much:
Q: What exactly are the Web values we’re celebrating?
A: That, too, is up to you. How has the Web changed your life? Increased your connectedness? More collaboration? More creativity? More openness to ideas?Q: What’s the political agenda behind OneWebDay?
A: Just this: We want to raise global awareness of how important the Web is to our lives and how positive its values are.
The entire site and the project wiki is as empty as this. It all seems a bit masturbatory to me: all the illusion of something worthwhile, but really in the end narcissistic self-love.