Creative Life Saver
I don’t usually buy into the “click here and help me” pages. So very many of them are nothing but get rich quick schemes and phishing sites waiting to take your money and your life, and not particularly in that order.
However, when I’m looking at the same thing from what I would call two reliable sources, Neil Gaiman’s Journal and R.K. Milholland’s Something Positive, I stand up and take notice.
And what I found is a site called Project Download – A click a day saves a life. Erin, the site founder, is suffering from Chiari malformation and cranial lesions and is looking at having to undergo a lot of surgery in the very near future; as anyone in the United States can tell you, if you don’t have health care insurance you’re pretty much screwed.
So what does this have to do with creativity? In this case, it’s a very creative way to earn the money she needs to afford her surgeries.
Instead of asking for donations she’s hooked up with MegaUpload and figured out how to raise the money she needs with their help. You don’t have to send her money; instead you click on a little link and download a small, virus free file that tells you a little bit more about her and her maladies. Five million downloads earns her ten grand for her medical expenses. All the details are on her site.
She’s even got a LiveJournal and Yahoo Group that’s being updated day to day on how things are proceeding. If you want my opinion, and if you got this far you’ve already gotten it, it’s a creative solution to her woes.
Give it a click, get the details for yourself and maybe download the file and help save a life.
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[...] » YourCre8tivity.com - Creative Adventures wrote an interesting post today on Creative Life SaverHere’s a quick excerpt I don’t usually buy into the “click here and help me” pages. So very many of them are nothing but get rich quick schemes and phishing sites waiting to take your money and your life, and not particularly in that order. However, when I’m looking at the same thing from what I would call two reliable sources, Neil Gaiman’s Journal and R.K. Milholland’s Something Positive, I stand up and take notice. And what I found is a site called Project Download – A click a day saves a life. Erin, the site fo [...]
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[...] » YourCre8tivity.com - Creative Adventures wrote an interesting post today on Creative Life SaverHere’s a quick excerpt I don’t usually buy into the “click here and help me” pages. So very many of them are nothing but get rich quick schemes and phishing sites waiting to take your money and your life, and not particularly in that order. However, when I’m looking at the same thing from what I would call two reliable sources, Neil Gaiman’s Journal and R.K. Milholland’s Something Positive, I stand up and take notice. And what I found is a site called Project Download – A click a day saves a life. Erin, the site fo [...]
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