What is OneWebDay and where did you get the idea?
OneWebDay is a global holiday to celebrate the collaborative, participatory nature of the Web. Because the Web runs on wires and uses machines, we forget that it’s fundamentally a social, human place. It’s changed the world in the last 10 years; it’s helped families keep in touch, helped people find jobs, brought news close to home, and on and on. The Web is worth celebrating, and so we’re going to do that for the first time on Friday. Because the Web is made of people, it’s up to us to protect it — and not take it for granted. The idea behind OneWebDay is to create an Earth Day for the Internet, Sept. 22 of every year. It is a day to celebrate how important the Web is to each of us. I created OneWebDay because I didn’t want people to treat the Web like any other network. It’s not a telephone system or a highway. It makes it possible for people to gather together (in games, now, but who knows what will happen in the future) and speak clearly to one another. I think it’s the single mos
