Creating Scrapbooks Online

If I did do a project on scrapbooking, I think I would focus more on the online community of sharing the books than on how the books would get into the digital world. I have a lot of ideas of how to create a community of scrapbookers to share ideas and stories, just like scrapbookers do now during crop sessions. One of the big problems is getting these unique albums online. There are plenty of album making software out now, but most of them are limited to posting pictures with comments, frames, and backgrounds. How can you maintain the creativity of actual scrapbooks in the digital world? One site I found actually does a really good job of replicating scrapbook creation. Scrapblog allows users to pick a background, rotate the pictures on the page, and to add stickers and text bubbles and titles. None of the albums I looked at really impressed me though because I knew that they were all created from templates on the site. When made by hand, every scrapbook is unique because of the way the paper is cut, the pictures are cut and positioned, etc. The possibilities are endless! Users can comment and tag the albums on the site, so that was a cool addition that would be useful. Otherwise, I had a hard time finding albums more than 5 pages long. I actually had a hard time finding many albums at all, which makes me wonder if there are few members or if everyone just makes their scrapbooks private. Oh well... it was still a good idea and I did find some of the albums cute :)

Here are a couple of screenshots from one album that I was impressed with (none of the others had text like this one to go with the pictures). I was kinda sketched out by the content though and hope it's just a joke...