Comments on: 50 things that are being killed by the internet http://www.socialarchivist.com/2009/09/07/50-things-that-are-being-killed-by-the-internet/ Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:34:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: NoMonkeyNo100 http://www.socialarchivist.com/2009/09/07/50-things-that-are-being-killed-by-the-internet/#comment-3201 NoMonkeyNo100 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:46:56 +0000 http://www.socialarchivist.com/?p=94#comment-3201 Nostaligic for the days of the handwritten letter I've hit upon a way to utilize both the old and the new. I write my letter over a period of days, which usually makes me more careful about style and content than the quick post, then take a photo of it! I post that. An added bonus of this technique is that one can include illustrations (photos, sketches, diagrams) if into the text by simply pre-calculating the areas of the paper one is writing upon and leaving them blank. A little photoshop work and one has a handwritten letter with illustrations which can easily be printed to pdf and mailed to one's friend. Tedious? Well, perhaps so, but that is how life was lived before. Things were done with time and care. Not like this post at all which is just off the top of my head. Nostaligic for the days of the handwritten letter I’ve hit upon a way to utilize both the old and the new. I write my letter over a period of days, which usually makes me more careful about style and content than the quick post, then take a photo of it! I post that.

An added bonus of this technique is that one can include illustrations (photos, sketches, diagrams) if into the text by simply pre-calculating the areas of the paper one is writing upon and leaving them blank. A little photoshop work and one has a handwritten letter with illustrations which can easily be printed to pdf and mailed to one’s friend.

Tedious? Well, perhaps so, but that is how life was lived before. Things were done with time and care. Not like this post at all which is just off the top of my head.

]]> By: Lydia http://www.socialarchivist.com/2009/09/07/50-things-that-are-being-killed-by-the-internet/#comment-728 Lydia Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:29:36 +0000 http://www.socialarchivist.com/?p=94#comment-728 I'd tend to disagree on the photo albums front - yes, the tradtional "stick 'em in" albums are falling by the wayside, but photobooks are fantastic. I feel they give a far more personalised and long-term momento of a chapter in a person's life than a simple amalgamation of separate photos. I love photobooks and the flexibility and value for money they give - and I've actually given photobooks as presents, whereas I'd have never have done the same with a traditional album. I’d tend to disagree on the photo albums front – yes, the tradtional “stick ‘em in” albums are falling by the wayside, but photobooks are fantastic. I feel they give a far more personalised and long-term momento of a chapter in a person’s life than a simple amalgamation of separate photos.

I love photobooks and the flexibility and value for money they give – and I’ve actually given photobooks as presents, whereas I’d have never have done the same with a traditional album.

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