TMW Ideas

You may have seen a story about children on Iran's death row in Metro yesterday. Here is a link to the flickr stream, (not given in the original story, for some reason). It's nice to see social media used for something other than having your house trashed or attempting to sell stuff, but the actual campaign seems a bit incoherent - it says in the article that Amnesty set the sites up, but there is no mention of the campaign on the Amnesty site, that I can see. (Hang on - found it. In the end) There is also no explicit link to the flickr and myspace pages on the stopchildexecutions.com site, apart from some links buried in the profile of one of the founders.

To date, Delara Darabi has 1,572 myspace friends. Lynx's Towelboy managed 1,331. Lily Allen has 250,101.

I suppose the myspace thing is a good way to build awareness, but I can't see it ever having the same impact as the letter writing that Amnesty used so successfully.