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April 13, 2009

Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures

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Above, the website of Canadian college student Matt Preprost at ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com.

Long story short: It was featured in Brad Stone's extremely interesting April 8, 2009 New York Times front page story about the rise of the Samaritans of cyberspace, who make it their business, sometimes with enormous expenditures of time and effort, to reunite people with their lost objects.

Ernesto Alonso, the terminal agent in charge of Miami International Airport's lost and found, told Stone that "We used to return about 30% of the items we got. With the Internet available to us, that total number is now over half."

There are number of businesses which use the Web to reunite lost items with their owners but to me that's small beer compared to the enormous pony that's hiding in here somewhere.

Someone'll figure it out.

Who knows, maybe you.

April 13, 2009 at 04:01 PM | Permalink


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