About Holidailies

Welcome to the tenth annual Holidailies project, a free community writing project that promotes sharing your writing and other online creative endeavors during the winter holiday season. Holidailies 2009 participants try to update their personal websites consistently -- perhaps even daily -- from December 7, 2009 to January 6, 2010. As a participant, you can write or post photos/audio/video about whatever you like, although daily prompts are available.

Holidailies portal participants post summaries of their entries to the Holidailies website, which are aggregated on the front page, newest entries listed first. You can view a list of all portal participants in the left-hand column. You can sort this list in a number of ways by using the pull-down menu at the bottom of the list.

Holidailies at Home is another way to participate in Holidailies. Holidailies at Home participants promise to update regularly, but don't post summaries to the portal. Your site will appear on the Holidailies at Home page, and you can include a Holidailies button graphic on your website. 

Holidailies readers are encouraged to keep up with portal posts through the site's RSS feed, and use the Holidailies at Home browser to find new content.

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Holidailies Registration

Please read this page completely before you try to register for Holidailies.

Anyone who agrees to meet all the following guidelines is welcome to join Holidailies 2009. Websites or entries that do not meet the guidelines are subject to removal.

The deadline for registration is Wednesday, December 9, 2009. No exceptions.

We might close portal registration before then if the portal gets too full. (This has happened before.) So, it's a good idea to sign up as soon as registration opens.

General Holidailies Guidelines

Read these guidelines and agree to them before you register to join Holidailies at Home or the Holidailies portal.

  • As a participant, you agree that you will try to update your website consistently -- daily if you can -- from December 7, 2009, to January 6, 2010. With holiday obligations, you might post a minimum of 20 entries for the month.
  • Participating websites can be generally personal or geared toward a topic (movies, music, crafts, etc.). It's okay if your site has ads on it, but sites that are obviously created strictly for commercial purposes (for example, shopping blogs that only promote products from affiliates) will be disqualified.
  • Suggested minimum content for each Holidailies entry you post would be 50 words or one photograph, video or audio entry. If you have a music-themed site and post CD reviews every day, that's fine. However, one-sentence entries don't count, unless it's a terrifically long sentence. Posting your daily Twitter feed doesn't count, either. And if you publish nothing but the results of silly online quizzes, you may face the Crankiness of Jette.
  • Typepad, Wordpress, LiveJournal, Vox, Blogger, and other community-based personal sites are welcome.
  • The point of Holidailies is to share your writing. Therefore, your entries must be accessible by the general public. Sites that are password-protected or access-restricted (members-only, friends-only) will be removed.
  • Holidailies assumes no responsibility or liability or whatnot for the content of any pages linked on the portal. Read at your own risk.
  • Feel free to copy or link to the Holidailies button graphics in the sidebar.
  • We reserve the right to remove web sites from the Holidailies project if they are commercial sites masquerading as personal ones, if they do not meet the above-listed criteria, if they crash our browsers, if they use excessive Flash and other plug-ins, or if they generally annoy us and we're in a bad mood.
  • The Holidailies portal and Holidailies at Home will be open from December 7, 2009 through January 6, 2010.

Portal Participants

Total sites: 122

What's This About?

Holidailies participants solemnly vow to update their Web sites daily from Dec. 7 to Jan. 6. Participants are listed in the left column, their most recent entries in the middle.

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Holidailies News

Dec 29: Posting time limit reduced

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Inside Holidailies

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  • About Holidailies
  • Login
  • Register
  • Holidailies News
  • Best of Holidailies
  • Holidailies at Home
  • Writing Prompts
  • Holidailies Past:
    '08 | '07 | '06 | '05 | '04 | '03
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Best of Holidailies

Exceptional articles selected by our distinguished readers panel. Most recent picks:

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