I just stumbled onto Photochaining, where you can leave a camera memory card with photos on it somewhere for a stranger to find, hoping they will follow your instructions, leave it for a subsequent stranger, and so on. This got me thinking about similar “tag and release” style sites or projects, like:
So I started a thread on Ask Metafilter, and will repost examples here (and anything else I find):
- Letterboxing
- The 1000 Journals Project. Interestingly, one of the related links there, www.1000journals.com, gets flagged as an “attack site” by Firefox.
- Where’s George? (US), Where’s Willy" (Canada), Canadian Money Tracker, and Australian Money Tracker.
- Postcrossing
- The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk (see also the tgimboej flickr tag).
- Tim Knowles’ Spy Box.
Semi-related and very cool, but no real Internet and/or feedback component, so I’m not really counting them:
- Leaving personal secrets inserted between the pages of PostSecret books in bookstores and libraries.
- Leaving mix CDs behind in Zipcars.
- Time capsules and messages in bottles.
- Carl Sagan’s plaque (jury’s still out on the feedback aspect).
