Daily Archive for August 4th, 2008

I’ve known about the Literacy Site for a long time, but never thought to link to it from LD Blog until yesterday. If you’ve been around the Internet since it’s first 5 years or so, you probably remember the sound that echoed when the Hunger Site went live. I can remember the desk and the old Mac that I was using when a friend first pointed me to it.

The Literacy Site does for books what the Hunger Site does for food: It uses sponsor-donated revenue to fund purchase and distribution of books. Once a day, users can register their presence by clicking a link on the site, and sponsors (e.g., Phi Beta Kappa) donate.

It seems like an appropriate feature for LD Blog. In fact, I might put an always-present link a sidebar for this one. In the meantime, here’s a link.