Legacy Lists - Organizing The Family Information
Posted on October 19, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Personal History | Leave a Comment
Flickr photo:neloqua
I recently realized that while my two sons are grown, 25 and 22, my will lists my brother as the executor of my estate. My oldest son lives here in Houston and it has occurred to me that I need to start grooming him to be my executor, showing him where all the [...]
Read More..>>Putting the Pieces Together Again After Hurricane Ike
Posted on September 30, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Networking, Photo Restoration, Photography and Snapshots | Leave a Comment
It’s been a little over two weeks since Hurricane Ike slammed Houston. For awhile, we were all the press could talk about, and then real life happened and the county’s financial mess engulfed our 15 minutes of fame.
With power still out in many areas and some 400 people missing from Galveston, it will be [...]
Natural Disasters 101
Posted on September 12, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Photo Restoration, Photography and Snapshots | 1 Comment
Flickr photo:Kicks in New Orleans
I am sitting here in Houston, waiting for Hurricane Ike to arrive. It’s 9AM and he’s not expected until around midnight but I’m nervous and not quite sure what to do. Arranging things around the house, most of it seems pointless. You never really know what’s going [...]
Read More..>>Creating a Storyboard for Multimedia Projects
Posted on September 5, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Personal History | 1 Comment
Flickr photo: Sthomas01
A storyboard is an essential tool for laying out a video or film project to communicate the look of a piece, to show how a story or plot unfolds and to organize the sequence of scenes before any time or money has been spent on studio sets, location shoots or special effects. [...]
Read More..>>The Generation Network’s MyFamily.com
Posted on August 31, 2008 - Filed Under Geneaology, Media Archiving, Networking, Social Media | Leave a Comment
There are several family networking sites available online these days, competing for your business. I’ve already discussed my personal favorite, Geni.com in several posts.
A friend of mine recently told me about MyFamily.com.
Over the past five years or so, his extended family through a sister-in-law has maintained a family website using MyFamily.com for non-public sharing [...]
Kronomy, Another New Social Media Tool
Posted on August 16, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Geneaology, Media Archiving, Networking, Personal History, Photo Restoration, Social Media | Leave a Comment
I have been playing around with a new online application called Kronomy. I’m not really ready to show the world my creation on there but let me tell you a bit about it.
There is a concept called collective consciousness which came out of the French social theorist Emile Durkheim’s work in the late 1800s that [...]
Social Networking Squeezing Out the Sacred Yearbook
Posted on May 19, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Personal History, Photography and Snapshots | 1 Comment
Flickr photo:PreciousKittyKat
Time was when everyone had to have a yearbook. During the final few days of school, you would run around, getting your friends’ and teachers’ signatures and comments. Well wishes for the coming summer, confessions of un-actualized crushes, premonitions of future success or in some cases, failure. All of these with remembrances [...]
Read More..>>Magnetic Photo Album Deterioration
Posted on April 17, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Photo Restoration, Photography and Snapshots | 3 Comments
Flickr photo: mimi.bowling
We often hear clients complain they can’t remove their photos from those old inexpensive magnetic photo albums. Those are the ones with the pre-glued pages that you just stick the photos in and slide the plastic sleeve over the outside. While those may seem fast and easy, over many years the glue [...]
Read More..>>Every Memory of Your Life Stored Forever - MyLifeBits Project
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Personal History, Video Tributes | 2 Comments
Gordon Bell
What would it look like if you had a computer with every single memory stored on it forever? You would be able to access every webpage you’ve ever looked at, every email you’ve read, every photo you’ve taken or been in, videos of your public speeches, records of conversations. Everything that you [...]
Read More..>>Sorting and Storing Digital Photos
Posted on March 26, 2008 - Filed Under Family Memories, Media Archiving, Networking, Photo Restoration, Photography and Snapshots | Leave a Comment
Flickr photo:BayCamera
In previous posts I have talked about sorting and archiving old photos and how important it is to do that. But, I have actually been been daunted by the task of organizing my own digital images. Right now they sit on my hard drive, backed up daily to a second hard [...]
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