Hi Guys, I started a blog as a writing exercise. Looking for something uncontroversial to write about, I decided on Dan Ariely's book 'The upside of irrationality', where, among other things, he discusses the issue of irrational response to natural disasters ( http://wordz2u.blogspot.com/2012/06/exploring-and-preventing-irrational.html), and proposed some solution. I then thought it might be interesting to expand my idea of solution, and wrote a second entry, detailing a possible solution, which to some extent follows the principles of open source - community effort, without a profit motive, to help humanity ( http://wordz2u.blogspot.com/2012/07/distributed-disaster-response.html).
I would appreciate comments about the viability of such an effort. In particular I wonder whether something like that could (and indeed should) use an existing social network, such as facebook or google plus. I have serious misgivings about proprietary walled garden such as FB. Twitter seems fine for now, and google I am not so sure about. This might tie in with the discussion about firemen in a way - like Ushaidi.org, but with writers on top of the maps. If you do follow the links and comment, please be nice. I prefer comments through this group than on my blog. Thanks, Z.
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