Unimpressed with Blog Action Day?

Yesterday I posted briefly about the upcoming Blog Action Day (see here) provoking a reaction from a commenter that deserves to be reposted in full:

This is a terrifically postmodern idea replete with proper (that is to say, not Alanis Morissette-style) irony: 9,763 (and counting!) people will literally do something while figuratively doing nothing.

I particularly appreciate the naff nonsense being peddled on the website: "What would happen if every blog published posts discussing the same issue, on the same day?" I assume this is rhetorical. I wish it was a subtle but cutting commentary drawing attention to the fact that the answer is "absolutely nothing" but I rather suspect it's meant to suggest that the result will be some form of Hubbardian-style electronic-handholding communal ascension led by a divine being preaching the bastard gospel of Tom Cruise-crazy meets Al Gore-crazy.

Have the organisers really failed to spot the oxymoron in "Blog Action" day? Has it not struck them that if they actually had any interest in helping the environment they would encourage "bloggers" (how I detest that word) to NOT "blog" (and that supposed verb), to reduce their power-consumption for a day and to go out and do something worthwhile?

As an alternative for the upper-middle class, platitude-prone self-huggers might I suggest this: plant a fucking tree.