I just wanted to post a reminder that today is Stop Cyberbullying Day, and we're mobilizing a global conversation about the various forms of online harassment and what we can do to combat them. Hundreds of bloggers have posted on the subject already, and I expect there will be many more over the course of the day.

How can you participate? Here are a few suggestions.

Post something online. Whether you want to blog, vlog or podcast about it, we encourage you to contribute something to the discussion today. It can be a personal story about cyberbullying, a collection of resources, advice you want to share - whatever you want. Then be sure to tag it stopcyberbullying so we can aggregate it.

Have an offline conversation with someone about it. Talk with your families, your colleagues, your students, your neighbors - we could all benefit from a frank discussion about online harassment.

Participate in the Stop Cyberbullying social network Since there's no way we can do justice to the issue in one day, we've set up this online community where people can share resources and talk. There's a growing number of videos and other resources related to cyberbullying, along with a feed of everything that's been tagged stopcyberbullying.

Learn more about the issue. You can learn more by participating in the social network, or you can visit resources like www.cyberbullying.org, www.stopcyberbullying.org, www.ncsriu.org and bullying.org, just to name a few.

Follow the feed. As more people contribute their own content and tag it, the number of resources will grow. You can subscribe to the rss feed or follow it on Twitter.

So please join me and countless other members of the online community as we join together and find ways to combat online harassment in all of its forms. -andy

Who do you see in this picture?

Chances are you'll see Albert Einstein. Try this - back away from your computer by at least several feet and look at the picture again. The further away you get from the screen, the better. Who do you see now?

Pretty cool, isn't it? From an article in New Scientist magazine. -andy

Just wanted to pass along a head's up that I will be a guest on The Brian Lehrer Show on Monday, April 2. It airs on WNYC in New York City, and can be heard online if you click the previous link. I'll be talking about cyberbullying. The segment is expected to air around 11:40am eastern, 8:40am Pacific. -andy

Those of you who have been following my blog for the last month know that I've been experimenting a lot with the group messaging service Twitter. It's been a great way to keep in touch with colleagues, though it borders on the addictive. Lots of folks have been playing around with ways to enhance the value of Twitter, coming up with various tools that interface with it. I've started using one of these tools, TwitterFeed, to create a Twitter account that sends out messages for news and resources related to Stop Cyberbullying Day, which begins in less than two hours. (Actually, if you're in Europe or further east, it already is Stop Cyberbullying Day, so I might as well start contributing now, right?)

TwitterFeed is a fairly simple idea - it lets you take any RSS feed and send its contents out over a Twitter account. So let's say you have an RSS feed for your blog. If you wanted to, you could send out bits of each blog post to your Twitter friends, who in turn would receive it via text messaging, instant messaging or over the Web, depending on their preference. So I decided to set up a Stop Cyberbullying Twitter account for the express purpose of sending out all the content bloggers and other Internet users are tagging as related to activities surrounding the campaign. First, I took a bunch of RSS feeds from sites like Technorati, del.icio.us, Google News and YouTube, all tailored to include content about cyberbullying. I then mixed them together into a single feed using the tool FeedDigest, then took that feed and supplied it to TwitterFeed.

In theory, TwitterFeed will post all new content from those feeds about once an hour, but it doesn't seem to be working that way so far, possibly because FeedDigest takes a while to update as well. Still, the process is beginning to work, with a number of cyberbullying resources going out through the Twitter account I created. If I could only get FeedDigest and TwitterFeed to update more than once an hour each, this could be an interesting way for anyone to get specially tailored information collected through RSS feeds out to a large audience, whether they prefer to receive the information via the Web, text messaging or instant messaging. Pretty cool, huh? -andy

Looks like I'm going to be on the BBC this afternoon as part of their World Have Your Say program, talking about cyberbullying. I believe Beth Kanter will be on air as well. It'll air live at 1800 GMT - that's 1pm ET, 10am Pacific here in the US. I think I'll be popping into the conversation somewhere around 40 minutes into the show. Wish me luck! -andy