Two from Freakonomics Blog
May 13th, 2008 by Laura H.
Another Pay-as-You-Wish Success Story with tips and caveats about this type of tale, and this BBC piece, via this LIST-onomics post.
Pope Benedict XVI will send religious text messages to thousands of young Catholics when he attends World Youth Day in Australia, organisers say.
The move aims to help the Pope connect with his technology-loving audience.
Digital prayer walls will also be set up and a web-based social networking site established, organisers say.
Re: the World Youth Day event - I applaud their effort to connect with “today’s tech-savvy youth” but I wonder if they will address actual social and cultural needs of the community, and if so, what those are (and why they’re not being addressed by local, physical groups or institutions).