Comments on: Commentary: Measuring the power of the web, to help! http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/12/8641/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:29:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dogcow http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/12/8641/comment-page-1/#comment-309320 Dogcow Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:13:31 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/12/8641/#comment-309320 I dont want to be cynical but I will. The reason why so many people cared about James Kim is that he isn't just a normal Joe. We feel we can identify with him somehow. Not all of us can be celebrities, but maybe some sort of social network would be a good way to approach it. I think breaking it into geographical (like the amber alert) and social constraints (hobbies, not necessarily stuff like myspace) would create the most involvement beyond just looking at a picture and praying. I dont want to be cynical but I will. The reason why so many people cared about James Kim is that he isn’t just a normal Joe. We feel we can identify with him somehow. Not all of us can be celebrities, but maybe some sort of social network would be a good way to approach it. I think breaking it into geographical (like the amber alert) and social constraints (hobbies, not necessarily stuff like myspace) would create the most involvement beyond just looking at a picture and praying.

]]> By: Dan http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/12/8641/comment-page-1/#comment-309316 Dan Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:57:40 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/12/8641/#comment-309316 Chad, I'm very serious about creating something. Im very interested to see what the community wants, and I will spend whatever it takes to get it done. Chad,

I’m very serious about creating something. Im very interested to see what the community wants, and I will spend whatever it takes to get it done.

]]> By: chad http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/12/8641/comment-page-1/#comment-309312 chad Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:48:41 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/12/8641/#comment-309312 we should create a website similiar to the amber alert kind of deal... a digital milk carton if you will... only problem would be people posting fakes and thus diluting the seriousness of the service. If somehow we could find a way to use SMS and RSS like technologies to spread the word based on geographical locations for missing peoples... that could be a service worth building. Tom goes missing in south florida, a realtive enters his information and last know where abouts, a message is then sent to the cell phones of all volunteers signed up within that area to keep an eye open for the said missing individual... even if it was police driven service.. where police enter the missing person into the database, that could cut back on spammers and hoaxes... then people within the area of that persons last known where abouts might take action, contact the news... something.... anything. just me rambling off an idea... I can help with the PHP/mySQL/SMS gateway if we should decide to attempt to build something like this. we should create a website similiar to the amber alert kind of deal… a digital milk carton if you will… only problem would be people posting fakes and thus diluting the seriousness of the service.

If somehow we could find a way to use SMS and RSS like technologies to spread the word based on geographical locations for missing peoples… that could be a service worth building.

Tom goes missing in south florida, a realtive enters his information and last know where abouts, a message is then sent to the cell phones of all volunteers signed up within that area to keep an eye open for the said missing individual… even if it was police driven service.. where police enter the missing person into the database, that could cut back on spammers and hoaxes… then people within the area of that persons last known where abouts might take action, contact the news… something…. anything.

just me rambling off an idea… I can help with the PHP/mySQL/SMS gateway if we should decide to attempt to build something like this.

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