Tomorrow is the day we picked for the blogosphere to donate one day's take-home pay for World Vision's relief fund for tsunami survivors. I originally set a goal of $5,000. You broke that in about two days. I reset the goal for tomorrow's fundraiser to $25,000. Y'all broke that yesterday, and the total is now $27,145!

So now, thanks to my friend King, we have a new goal for tomorrow:

Our many donors have already raised $25,000; I am hopeful that a concerted push tomorrow can double that number. Sounds absurd? Let's prove 'em wrong, shall we?

That may be quite a stretch, but it's a goal worth shooting for! One of the many who have signed on to help is Chris Lynch from A Large Regular, who writes:

I want to help make your World Relief Day tomorrow a success in my own small way. I have already donated to the relief via my church and via the American Red Cross (and now I need my excess cash for a new car since the transmission on my wife's 98 Grand Cavavan is shot) but I had an idea that I thought I'd run past you.

Like many bloggers - I added Google Adsence ads to my site. I've had them up for over 3 months and my account only stands at $66.00. Google doesn't pay you until the account gets to $100.

Here's my idea - I'm going to post asking my visitors to click an ad (to drive up the amount Google pays) but I only average about 200 visitors a day. If you post asking people to visit my site to click the ads - I'll donate the $100 (I doubt we'd be able to drive it to $200) to you to donate or to World Vision directly.

So here's a thought for all of you who have already given all they can. Instead of cash, go to Chris' blog and click a few of his Google ads. (Who knows, you might find something you need!) If we can get Chris to $100, it'll go to a good cause. If we can get him to $200, even better.

I've been remiss at updating the partner list on the proper link, and besides, it's getting kind of crowded there:

Mount Virtus
Shock And Blog
NIF
DGCI
The Key Monk
In My Own Little Corner ...
Hyscience
Hello, Chapter 2!
Crystal Clear
Kowabunga
W.B. Young
The Myopist
Redstate
Cold Spring Shops
Proverbs Daily

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Don't forget today is World Relief Day! From Captain Ed yesterday (01/11/05): Tomorrow is the day we picked for the blogosphere to donate one day's take-home pay for World Vision's relief fund for tsunami survivors. I originally set a goal of $5,... [Read More]

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UPDATE; A BRILLIANT IDEA: A Large Regular says if you have donated all you can, you can still help the cause by heading over to his site and clicking on an Adsense Ad - he will donate all of his Adsense $$ to the cause. Good guy. He has a nice blog, ... [Read More]

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