The Power of the Voice

Michael Bailey is a web entrepreneur who, among other things, created the web audio comment application MyChingo. He was also at PodCamp Pittsburgh, where we spent a good deal of time together and got to understand each other's goals for this new media revolution.

Today, Michael emails me with a blog link that I find fascinating -- and it's something each of us can take action on right now.

In a nutshell: a woman in the UK who is in a coma appears to respond favorably to audio signals. Her husband has installed a MyChingo comment system on his blog, so people from around the world can leave positive, upbeat messages for his wife, which he will then playback for her at a later time.

Not only is this likely to be a positive boost for his wife, it can't help but raise the spirts of her husband as well when he sees people willing to take a few moments out of their lives to give himself and his family some comfort.

As Michael says, it's kind of cool when something you made for one purpose winds up being used in a completely different way to help somebody else.