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This is very cool, the million dollar blog post at gifter.org is kind of like the million dollar homepage, but with generosity in place of pure, queasy-making self interest.

The million dollar blog post describes itself thus:

If you could make one wish for the world, what would it be?

In fact, we want to know so much, we’re willing to donate $1 to charity for each wish comment posted here.

The idea is that anyone can leave a wish for the world (as a comment on the post), and for each wish $1 will be donated to charity by a sponsor. Anyone can become a sponsor, just by making a donation to the charity of their choice, putting the receipt online and letting gifter.org know.

Sure some sponsors may have already been planning to make donations, others we hope are inspired by witnessing the community express their generosity that they make a donation they hadn’t planned on making.

We aren’t motivated by the money. The goal is to document in a social giving experiment how generous the Internet community can be, when we act collectively and support each others projects.

I really hope they make it to their $1m target, this sort of thing gives me hope that the Internet can be good for more than videos of blowing stuff up. Much more.