Submission + - Using Social Media to Catch a Predator? (wordpress.com)
IronDuck writes: A friend and coworker of mine is in the middle of a family crisis involving the disappearance of a relative. This is the kind of thing that you always assume happens to 'somebody else' but now it has hit home. Being a net-savvy, web 2.0 kind of guy, my friend has tried to leverage the power of social media to spread the word about his missing sister-in-law. He has setup a website here and has appealed to all his contacts to spread the word.
My question for Slashdot is how do you prevent an important story from getting lost in the noise of the internet? At last count, the story had 444 diggs compared to 2231 diggs for a story about having sex in space.