Timelines

While searching online to see what hold the scrapbooking community had in the digital world, I came upon the site ourstory.com which I found to be an interesting site to share stories with the world. At this site you create a timeline of your life by writing stories to describe certain parts of your life. You can add pictures and video to describe the stories. This site had more to do with a written story, with a picture to describe it, while the scrapbooks I do focus on the pictures, with smaller stories to go with those.

I thought the whole timeline thing was a cool idea. One user did a timeline on Steve Irwin's life that I thought was kind of interesting. When you click on a picture, you go to the story that describes it (like the movie picture has a story about his movie). With online scrapbooks, I think it would be neat to be able to connect the scrapbooks through events in time. You could have a timeline of your life with the different scrapbooks that go with that time. Other people could connect their same scrapbooks of that time to the timeline, creating a whole web of events that you could view by time in history. It would be a neat way of getting a chronological look at someone's life.