PledgeBank launches
June 13th, 2005Have I mentioned PledgeBank before? I don’t think I have… it has been in beta for some time time but today it officially launches (with added Brian Eno). The idea is simple - so simple I can’t believe it hasn’t really done yet - if you want to do something worthy, but need other people to join you in order to make it a difference, then you can make a pledge to do it, if x others also sign up to do the same thing.
The idea’s great, it’ll be interesting to see how it pans out, especially as to how effective searching out pledges you might want to join is going to be. While I’m not a folksonomy obsessive like some people out there, adding the ability to tag a pledge with extra keywords would be a help, especially as similarly-linked pledges can be grouped together.
June 13th, 2005 at 17:10:38
It does seem to be an interesting idea and is certainly a refreshing alternative to the spread of “petitions” through our society. Many of the pledges seem to revolve around actually doing something useful rather than just signing a petition in the (usually vain) hope that someone else might do something. Better to pledge not to use your car for a week than to sign a petition against global warming. Better to pledge to donate money to a cancer research charity than to sign a petition against breast cancer.