Comments on: Do you know these people?

By: What you read « Rowan Simpson

What you read « Rowan Simpson — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:12:53 +0000

[...] of you than others. Over 4,000 people visited on December 14th (the busiest single day yet) to read about a small experiment I ran to try and reunite a lost camera with its owner (it worked by the way – you found him [...]

By: follower

follower — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:13:17 +0000

In light of this story, the following article is amusing and practical:

http://www.andrewmcdonald.net.au/a-pictorial-guide-to-avoiding-camera-loss/

–Philip;

By: Jack Yan

Jack Yan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:29:36 +0000

Sy, I always get Caucasians mixed up. You all look the same to me. :)

By: Rowan Simpson

Rowan Simpson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:13:05 +0000

> For some reason I always get you two mixed up.

Ouch! ;-)

By: Simon Young

Simon Young — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:32:50 +0000

Oops! My bad. For some reason I always get you two mixed up. I’ll blame this one on Monday.

By: lance

lance — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:37:44 +0000

I think you meant “Rowan” there Simon. Shame WordPress doesn’t have edit your comment ability.

Great result Rowan

By: Karl Rohde

Karl Rohde — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:50:18 +0000

Could I also recommend listing (for free) on http://www.lostorstolen.co.nz or http://www.lostorstolen.eu

By: Rowan Simpson

Rowan Simpson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:30:14 +0000

Actually, in this case they have all just re-published an article written by NZPA.

As you say, credit to stuff.co.nz for adding a link when this was pointed out to them.

By: Raj Prasad

Raj Prasad — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:06:56 +0000

Hey was nice of you to help reunite the camera with the owners. heard about it on the yahooxtra site. And yes no link, but managed to find ur site anyway

By: Mathew Sanders

Mathew Sanders — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:53:46 +0000

Well Stuff.co.nz did link back to your blog, just not the post.

I wish New Zealand newspapers would start exploiting online as a proper channel and not just an archive of printed editions :(

By: Nathan Kennedy

Nathan Kennedy — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:55:44 +0000

Well done. I see you’ve now made the media!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3158465/Twitter-helps-reunite-owner-with-camera

I received the RT of Twitter from several people, so the experiments seems to have been a great success.

By: Mark Lincoln

Mark Lincoln — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:50:43 +0000

Goon on ya Rowan. I see the owner’s been found. NZ Stuff just did a report on the story:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3158465/Twitter-helps-reunite-owner-with-camera

Awesome result.

And people are STILL trying to help through Twitter! Now that the wave has started, we just need to figure out how to stop it!

By: Jack Yan

Jack Yan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:53:22 +0000

Like Hamish, I’m one degree away from John, and had Tumbled this earlier today. Glad the experiment worked, though I would also like to find out how Tariq came across you!

By: Hamish MacEwan

Hamish MacEwan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:05:15 +0000

Hi,

I am one mutual friend away from John on Facebook… is that one or two degrees of separation?

Great experiment… wonder if it would scale.

By: Sheldon Nesdale

Sheldon Nesdale — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:56:35 +0000

Cool experiment!

By: Rowan Simpson

Rowan Simpson — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:48:28 +0000

Hey Tarik -

Thanks for that. Hopefully I’ll hear from John soon.

Out of interest, how did you hear about this post, so we can track it back?

Cheers,
Rowan.

By: Walter

Walter — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:38:17 +0000

He’s even wearing the same polo-shirt ????? :-)

By: Hamish

Hamish — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:36:30 +0000

Heh, even the same shirt. Win!

By: TC

TC — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:26:05 +0000

Hi Rowan

Small world. The guy on the far right is John Wesley-Smith:

http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=john+wesley&init=quick#/profile.php?id=575312819&ref=search&sid=559464008.1519789580..1

Will fire him off a link to contact you.

Have a great Xmas,

Tarik

By: hasan

hasan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:25:53 +0000

ya i know him………….

By: gredge

gredge — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:06:00 +0000

What a nice looking bunch. I really hope this works out for them! Good on ya. Retweeted!

By: Simon Young

Simon Young — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:05:24 +0000

Good on you Lance. I guess a heads-up to the mainstream media wouldn’t hurt either.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:00:09 +0000

Neat idea. I suspect that Facebook would be a better network for achieving this than Twitter (not that you are trying to limit anything to one network).

If you don’t have any luck in the next 24hrs you could always try setting up a facebook page and distributing the call there.

Really interested to see how this works out.