Blogathon in aid of hospice

Twenty-four-year-old Tew Hui Suan has a hobby shared by about 10,000 other Malaysians – “blogging”, or web logging.
But unlike the others, Tew, who is known as “Suanie” on her blog, is doing much more than just posting her daily online journal on the Internet.
She has joined a collaborative blog to help raise funds for a charitable organisation.
Tew, a management student, has grouped together five well-known bloggers here, and registered themselves as www.bloggersaremorons.com on Blogathon, a website where journal entries will be posted for 24 hours to raise funds for charity.
(A blog is a public website where users post informal journals of their thoughts, comments, and philosophies, updated frequently, and normally reflecting the views of the blog creator, called blogger).
Claire Khoo, 25, Peter Tan, 37, Paul Tan, 21, Kenny Sia, 23, and a 27-year-old Englishman residing in Malaysia who only wanted to be known as “Shaolin Tiger”, and Tew, started updating their blogathon site at 9pm yesterday to raise funds for the Penang-branch Hospice-At-Home Programme (HHP), which comes under the Malaysian Cancer Society.
Each of them blogged for four hours and updated the journal every 30 minutes.
Khoo, whose blog is Minishorts. net, said the blogathon was a great way to work together in aid of others.
“There are so many of us (bloggers) who want to do things together and this is an opportunity to do some charity,” said the editor of a book publishing company.

As of yesterday evening, the group managed to raise about US$460 (RM1,265). It has set no target amount, but Tew urged all to donate generously.
The blogathon officially ends at 9pm tonight, but donation pledges will be accepted till Tuesday.
To pledge a donation, log on to http://www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php?campaign&id=38, and to read the group's blog, log on to www.bloggersaremorons.com.
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