Blogger Relief

by John Fontana on Sep 3, 2005 10:38 AM EDT in The Site

I emailed a contingent of Hockey Bloggers and general web logger's this afternoon in an attempt to show a united front and encourage readership to donate to the Red Cross... Now I'm asking the general blog community to lend a hand.

I created an image (as you can see at the top of the right hand menu) encouraging people to donate to the Red Cross. I'd like for this image to spread around the Blogosphere to show we're out there and we care...

The code to post that image and the link is as follows:
< a href="http://www.redcross.org" target="_blank">< img src="http://photos.stonegauge.com/albums/userpics/10001/NODonate.jpg"/>< /a>

Copy and paste this code onto your page somewhere and simply remove the spaces before the a href, the img tag and the ending < /a> and it should work.

Thanks to Eric, Lyle, Tom and Mike for their initial support on this...

EDIT: There are a lot of bloggers out there that have picked up on this.... It'd be nice to have a comprehensive list so I am asking for people to comment on this thread or send a trackback/pingback to the thread....

Some of the blogs participating:
Off Wing Opinion
Mike Chen's Hockey Blog
Spectors Hockey
Tom Benjamin's NHL Weblog
Beyond the Boxscore
Red Line Sports
Sticks of Fire
Balls, Sticks and Stuff
Tampa Film Fan
Tampa Book Buzz
Jes Golbez Hockey Rants
Tiny Little Dots
Hockey Country
Last Day of My Life
Odd Man Rush
CHL Fans
Sabre Rattling

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It’s the least we web-heads can do to help out. Don’t be shy, folks! If you’ve got a blog, post up the relief button, and give! If you’re a reader of these blogs, click the relief button and give!

The people of New Orleans, as well as the other regions hit hard by Hurricane Katrina,need our help. Let’s get it done!

by Lyle Richardson on Sep 1, 2005 7:27 PM EDT reply actions

Oh, and John? It’s spectorshockey.net, not .com.

Cheers!

by Lyle Richardson on Sep 1, 2005 7:29 PM EDT reply actions

The St Pete Times Forum has opened as a 24 hour Katrina relief collection site. More info and a listing of the supplies needed can be seen at:

http://www.tampabaylightning.com/prdetail.cfm?pressreleaseID=1133&category=3

On a related not, some Lightning and Tampa Bay Storm players will be signing autographs Saturday for those contributing to the relief effort, you can read more at:

http://www.tampabaylightning.com/prdetail.cfm?pressreleaseID=1134&category=3

by missK on Sep 2, 2005 9:12 AM EDT reply actions

Was there much damage from Katrina in the Florida panhandle area?

by PJ on Sep 2, 2005 1:55 PM EDT reply actions

There was some, PJ, but nothing that compared to the damage west of the panhandle.

Yet the Panhandle is still trying to recover from 2 direct-hits from hurricanes in a year timespan… Ivan last year and Dennis this year…. So everyoen there was already weary of what could happen…

by John F. on Sep 2, 2005 2:15 PM EDT reply actions

What a great idea! I’ve put it up on Tampa Film Fan (http://tampafilmfan.blogspot.com) and Tampa Book Buzz (http://tampabookblog.blogspot.com) and linked to the Salvation Army.