Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Family Archiving Network

There are plenty of history search archives.


however, its more of finding information. And they don't have access to everything all in one place.
Perhaps if they were all synced, or if your family members managed different accounts, then you could all pool your efforts into another page.
I'm thinking a family network thing where you can upload all sorts of information. Pictures, stories, journal entries, notes, timelines... all that stuff. In folders that are linked like a family tree. This would also make it possible to keep track of your relatives who are alive today. They could post links to their blogs or facebook pages. Then you could know names of your family and keep up with the new kids who are being added. Then, if you found someone else alive who was related to you, you could merge folders as well and the connections could double every time. AMAZING.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Maps!

people are pretty terrible with geography. For example, I remember when I used to tell people I was samoan and people would be like what is that? or oh you mean tongan? or is that part of hawaii? ARE YOU SERIOUS?! anyways. neither has my mom who is a second grade teacher been very good at geography where she didn't know that dominican republic and haiti shared an island or that they were different countries. A MASTER DEGREE and you cant understand that? In a rapidly globalizing world, that is a terrible reality. The best thing to do would be to educate from a young age. I know people put up maps as walls or have globes around to look at. There is now google maps and GPS to help people as well. The thing that I think would be great, is to sync up google earth to one of these bad boys

imagine this home decor was a collection of touch-screens linked to the google earth program to where you could zoom and see photos learning geography? BLOODY BRILLIANT.