If you live in the New England area and flew on United Airlines on or about October 9th or 10th.Then contact David Berlind. He has your iPod.  

He also thinks this could be a neat test of the effectiveness of the blogosphere’s viral nature. I agree.

If this isn’t a test for how the blogosphere can get things done, I’m not sure what is. As a part of this test, if you happen to read this blog entry and you have a blog, please spread the word and let’s see if the viral nature of the blogosphere can help this iPod find its owner.

The reason I haven’t posted this notice until today is that I had to wait to get a hold of a charger to charge it up in hopes of finding some clue as to who the owner is.  Sadly, the owner did not elect to have any contact information engraved on the back of the device. Also, I don’t know much about iPods, but it seems as though there should be an easy way to load it with the owner’s contact information and have it “boot” to that screen.  I searched high and low through the device and about the only clue I could find was the text “De Monstrow.” 

If any of this means something to you and you’ve recently lost your iPod, contact me at david.berlind@cnet.com. The photos on this device clearly have some sentimental value. So, it would be great if we (the blogosphere) can help it find its way home. Of course, you’ll need to prove to me that it’s yours which shouldn’t be too difficult

If you have a blog please link to David’s post and let’s see if we can help reunite this person and their iPod.