Well, as I said in the 90s, every day should have a photograph. So I'm glad someone's made a web app of the idea now.

Don't steal that as a marketing line though!

<nostalgic tangent>
Back then, no one had even coined the term "app" as being online. This was at the t Read more...

Well, as I said in the 90s, every day should have a photograph. So I'm glad someone's made a web app of the idea now.

Don't steal that as a marketing line though!

<nostalgic tangent>
Back then, no one had even coined the term "app" as being online. This was at the time when I would spend 15 minutes downloading just one Ryan Adams song on a acoustic modem, mainly because my sweetheart mentioned loving it. (I miss those days when time went on forever! Now online-ness is all clicks, blips, and tweets that even chimps can work with.. but hey I was there, and this is now, and that's all there is .. and there's still no app for that!)
</nostalgic tangent>

So anyway I found this blipfoto thing just at the start of my holidays in 2010, because of an advert on twitter (let's call a spade a spade, its nothing but adverts) for the life.turns.app for InSpace in Edinburgh, which I only know because of a friend that works in PR. I've just messed up a trip to Canada through a comedy of errors and stress this year, so I'm wondering what I'll get up to for three weeks.. and since it's been 7 months since I could forget about the time from hour to hour, I thought it'd be cool to distill my memories of the highlights with this idea of having a photo of the day.

Sorry, this is all getting a bit pretentious... if you're still reading this, dude, you need to get offline more. ;-)

Basically, it's hardly an unusual practice now, but I like recording the present with crazy little insights that really deserve an explanation, even to yourself. No matter how much you explain them, there's no substitute for actually being there and keeping the real pictures in your head. So if blipfoto.com inspires and reminds folk to get out there and explore life, rather than sucking them in through a screen of whatever size, then that's great.. "keep it simple, stupid".

Carpe Diem !

The Grahamist

ps - hopefully not to many pictures of sunsets and "iconic lifestyle products".