I missed this last week, but the invaluable Noah Shachtman reported at Wired.com's Danger Room about a State Department-sponsored competition that basically consists of using social media to track down five "fugitives" in a worldwide manhunt. The reward/prize is $5,000 for finding the fugitive within twelve hours of the release of his/her photo on March 31 in one of five international cities: New York, London, Washington, Stockholm, and Bratislava (wait . . . Bratislava?!? Huh?).
As regular readers of this blog well know, I'm nowhere near tech-savvy enough to be of much use in this competition. But if anybody in the greater DC-area is going to form a team, I'd be very interested in hearing about how you plan on approaching the search.
Michael Yon, incidentally, wrote on geotags and social networking back in December 2010, a post which Glenn "Instapundit Reynolds linked to under the title "How to Get Tracked Down and Killed."
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