How can we create easier ways to share our experiences with friends and family? http://www.livesimplicity.com/topics/preserving-your-memories 2007-05-16T16:22:04Z moderator http://www.livesimplicity.com/users/moderator http://www.livesimplicity.com/topics/preserving-your-memories#comment1 2007-03-21T16:16:30Z Andrewww http://www.livesimplicity.com/users/andrewww <b>Old school sharing versus New school sharing resulting in mass creativity</b><br/> The internet, mobile phones and digital camera’s have dramatically changed the way and the frequency we capture and share our daily doings and interests.<br/> Capturing and sharing experiences is so cheap and easy to do now a days that we seem to overload each other with it. <b>Has this explosion in quantity has countered quality?</b> <br/> Take YouTube, Flickr, Delicious, Myspace and other examples of ‘broadcast yourself’ platforms. Any- and everybody is broadcasting experiences. The snapshotting culture has resulted in a new form of ‘mass creativity’ there are some pretty wild things going on online at this moment.<br/> One of my favourites`examples is <b>‘Mia’s own song’</b>. A young girl films herself playing guitar and singing a song in her at home in her bedroom. The movie is posted on YouTube. Several days later a drummer has recorded a drumriff and merged this in to Mia original video and posted the result on YouTube. After a while other musicians do the same and soon a full pledge composition is co-created online. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guu9vF17y0c&mode=related&search= http://www.livesimplicity.com/topics/preserving-your-memories#comment2 2007-03-21T17:00:58Z Andrewww http://www.livesimplicity.com/users/andrewww Here's the correct link to <b>'Mia's own song'</b> at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guu9vF17y0c http://www.livesimplicity.com/topics/preserving-your-memories#comment3 2007-05-01T02:41:57Z herrylaw http://www.livesimplicity.com/users/herrylaw This is not an either/or issue. I use Picasa/ Hello to share photos and chat with family and friends in Australia, Japan and China while maintaining a photo archive on Flickr. On the other hand, I will print out photos (via Photobox) to post to 'View B' friends in France. It's often time consuming and expensive to get physically together -although that experience is of course preferable. But even then, I would prefer to run a slideshow on my laptop for them than laboriously print off photos from which to make a physical collection.