Cohos, Salmon-Bots, AIM, and World Peace?

This Is An Ongoing Study Of The Project Upstream

Project Upstream is an organization dedicated to promoting social ideals through the use of exciting new technology. Their most well-known service is our swarm of robotic fish, which connects AIM users to each other.

Robotic fish connections occur spontaneously, and also by request. If you would like to partake in the robotic fish experience, you are encouraged to enter your AIM name at http://project-upstream.awardspace.com/http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.72/theme/silver/palette.gif); visibility: visible; border-bottom-width: 0px; max-width: 2000px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 14px; max-height: 2000px; line-height: normal; padding-top: 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-style: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; top: auto; height: 12px; background-color: transparent; border-right-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; cssfloat: none" alt="" src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.72/t.gif" />

During the experience, both AIM users are given alternative names and any identification information exchanged is distorted to create confusion and possibly controversy.

During this experience, the two can decide to either connect, conflict, disconnect, or never engage.

As masses of online people become more adept at welcoming and connecting with strangers through salmon-bot repitition, perhaps these peaceful tendencies will trickle to the real world.

Hence, Project Upstream fosters in world peace by first teaching people to trust and intimately connect with others in an anonymous possibly deceptive environment like the Internet.

AIM robotic fish have names like RelevantCoho, CrablikeCoho, CurrentCoho, AchievingCoho, StubbornCoho.

Cohos are a type of salmon.

Some say that Project Upstream pairs two AIM users randomly. Others say that the project uses the AIM information of Facebook.com, LiveJournal.com, Xanga.com, DevianArt.com, and OKCupid.com. However, there are some people involved who advise that they have no connection with any of these social networking sites.

Some say it is a pyramid scam or information gathering scam.

All interested individuals are encouraged to speak directly to them at http://community.livejournal.com/themissinghat/199227.html, saying whatever you would like, by making comments on this entry. Submit feedback, or ask them questions; it is up to you.

Unfortunately, the nature of their operation requires certain information about them to be kept out of the public eye. For that reason, they will respond to comments, and answer questions, at their discretion only. But don't let that stop you from making some great comments on this entry! They look forward to reading them all.

If you wish to opt out of the program permenantly, type $optout in the AIM conversation box when engaged by a robotic fish.

I think that creating an independent, unbiased forum and data collection to expose or at least explain as much information as possible about a possible secret society with the possible intention of world peace is very important. I think the controversy, myths, misconceptions need to be addressed. I think it is a service to the online community.

Currently researching...

What are the specific social ideals that Project Upstream wishes to promote?
Who founded the Project Upstream?
How can we help them in their mission?