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Feeling Wired

Wired News has published a story on the Latoyia Figueroa case. I spoke with the reporter, Cyrus Farivar, on the phone over the weekend; my quote appears at the end of the story.

During our conversation, Cyrus asked me where things were going to go from here. It was a good question; unfortunately, Latoyia is not the only woman missing in our area.

In the comment thread of a post written by ol cranky of Disenchanted Forest, bloggers at Philly Future have begun to organize an ad network to publicize missing persons cases.

Ol cranky wrote:

I suggest blog PSAs (public service announcements) for missing persons; yes, I’m suggesting blogs become today’s milk cartons. My ultimate goal (with which I need help, since I have no idea how to do this myself) is for bloggers to be able to register somewhere so they can place missing person PSAs on their blog that will be generated randomly to rotate those currently on police/FBI blotters as missing persons. Yep, I’m thinking national: a blogger can input a zipcode that will autogenerate 2 or 3 local/regional missing persons + one from outside their region to maximize coverage. This way, my blog could have PSAs like the one for Latoyia, one for Khalid (if you’re in South Philly, check him out, he’s right below my profile at The Disenchanted Forest), one for Richard Petrone & Danielle Imbo who are from the Philly metro area, and one for someone like Tamika Huston or any one of the whole host of other folks listed here.

We’re working on making this network a reality. Until then, please consider the idea that two British bloggers, Tazzy and Piggy, have had: Missing Mondays. Pax Romano summarized the idea:

Taking this further, the boys have proposed that bloggers everywhere designate the first Monday of the month as “Missing Monday” where bloggers the world over are invited to post the picture and information of someone who is missing from their state or country. I think this is a great idea and plan to follow through with it. If you are interested in details go HERE for information.

One post, one day a month: that’s not asking too much, is it?