Recently, I read about Google's acquisition of a service called Aardvark on Download Squad. At first, I didn't think anything about the service and thought it might just be a time waster but I was curious so I headed over to the site.The Aardvark site is pretty minimalistic and you can use the site without signing up. Basically, what it does is crowd source information based upon networks of people. If you have a question, Aardvark will send that question to your friends via IM, email, or an iPhone app and they can answer it. If no one in your friends network has an answer, the question can go out to a larger network. My first question took about a minute to get a reply so the service is pretty quick.
At any rate, I decided to give it a try and signed up and I've already answered a couple of questions. When I was working on my profile, I realized there were a number of categories in which you can mark yourself as being familiar and some of these categories included alternative science (pseudoscience to the real word) and alternative medicine (or quackery). Naturally, I signed up. There are also categories for cryptozoology and things like Atheism.
So I would like to encourage any fellow Skeptics out there who are so inclined to sign up and start sending some reason out to an audience eager for an answer. If you want, you can become a part of my network at http://vark.com/s/q2hG. Aardvark also integrates with Facebook and most of the major email provider (Yahoo, etc.)
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