Yesterday I replied to a blog post using my real name about how the Internet is being used to search for missing aviator Steve Fossett. I made some comments about my experience in participating in the online search via Amazon's Mechanical Turk that has a project dedicated to searching for him using updated satellite photos. Well last night, just from my name, a newspaper reporter from the Chicago Sun Times tracked me down and gave me a call to interview me on this novel way of assisting with search and rescue. This morning the article was published at http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/5...sett13.article.
Later in the evening another newspaper reporter from a different newspaper called me and also interviewed me, but I haven't seen their article yet.
My advice from this is to never discount the value of using your real name in blog posts. You never know who will be reading, it might just be a newspaper reporter doing a story.
Now I just have to figure out how to get a copy of today's Chicago Sun Times for a keepsake.
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