Updates Blog

Regarding the new site at 1friend2another.org, I’m customizing the site for English speakers from other countries, for example in the Mount Rushmore scene I’ve added quotes from people in Australia and other parts of the British Commonwealth.

Meanwhile we’re buried in the strongest snowstorm in over ten years here in Seattle. But I love it, having been born and raised in Alaska.

I’m preparing a press release for the American press and will put it on this page tomorrow.

You may wonder what the chances are that 1friend2another.org will succeed in its ambitious aims. Well, there are basically three ways this site could go:

1. Some people forward it to their friends, but it doesn’t really catch on and it fizzles after a few hundred (or a few thousand) people have read it.

2. It grows exponentially as friends forward it: 1000 forwards become 2000 the next day, then 4000 the next, until in ten days one million people have seen it — and in the next week, tens of millions may even see it.

3. We send out emails to people and enthusiastically urge them to forward it for the sake of charity, and at first it grows exponentially because the email is being forwarded among caring and charitable people. But as it gets forwarded to more people who are a bit less charitable and less connected to the original enthusiastic email senders, the growth gradually slows down. It ends up reaching tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people.