Thanks for reminding me I still need to import all the stuff from from my 5yo's old blog over to her new space and repost stuff to my 3yos blog. Not enough time in the day.
- Admiral Anika
That's neat, you are doing that too. I hadn't even thought of that. My wife and I want to get pregnant when she gets out of grad school and I will do that too (3-4 years from now, but soon).
- Neal Jansons
Yeah, it's fun the first year, but after that it's a PITA. My kid's first website is 6 years old, then she got her first blog at the end of '03. My son's blog is 3 years old. I just moved them both to Wordpress and haven't imported anything yet. There's just too much data.
- Admiral Anika
we use Totspot for our 7 month old. Has worked really well since it's engineered specifically for adding "firsts", importing photos and videos, growth charts, journals, etc. Highly recommended. Much easier than setting up a blog.
- Nathan Chase
Nathan, that's a great tip. I wish that was around when we had our first. I'm seriously considering getting them both Tumblr or Storytlr pages and letting them sort it out when they get older. I'm tired. LOL
- Admiral Anika
Nathan, I have an account at Totspot, it's a neat service. My fear is the service shutting down at some point, and all that precious content will be forever lost. For now the blog suits the purpose for video embedding and quick posts of pictures. I also like the fact I can map a custom domain to the blog.
- Mike Fruchter
@Rochelle, I love that blog. Thanks for sharing! Audrey is ADORABLE!
- Mike Fruchter
For all the future boyfriends that want to look and see what she looked like at a young age?
- Santa CW™
Mike, also look up OurStory.com - great for recording a timeline of events and pictures.
- Jesse Stay
@ Just CW, oh god that scares me :) On a side note every few weeks family are asking for recent pictures etc. Now it's easy for them they can simply goto her domain, or subscribe via email for updates. I hope to digitize and document every major event in her life on this blog. Future boyfriends be warned ahead of time, cold steel is not to far away :-)
- Mike Fruchter
@Jesse, thanks. It's been bookmarked. I need to register for an account and check it out.
- Mike Fruchter
Loved the photo of your little pumpkin, so CUTE!! It's such a great idea! I set up one for my 5yr old, she wanted a blog because both her dad and mom have one but I've been too lazy to help her update it. You've just inspired me to keep it going :) I am going to look up the others mentioned here as well.
- MiaD
Anika, did you set the clock on your digital camera? If your photos have dates in them, just upload them to OurDoings for an insta-blog. Mike actually wrote an OurDoings review not to long ago. Since he wrote it I added support for custom domains.
- Bruce Lewis
Thanks for the tip, Bruce. I don't think I can rely on my camera's settings. Just learned today that stuff I shot 5 days ago are timestamped 1/1/2006. :(
- Admiral Anika
Once you upload it, though, Anika, you should at least have the correct uploading date on your PC. That should give you a rough idea of when pictures were taken, I think.
- Kamilah Gill
Mike - Congrats on getting the blog up! late to the convo, but glad you've checked us out; we do have a wide open API (http://www.totspot.com/api) that we intend to make more accessible over time through more consumer facing stuff to give users confidence / control of their content (though we have every intention of lasting ;)) ...domain mapping, hard-copy printing, and more, are also on the way - would love to hear any more thoughts you might have for us to get better - feel free to email michael@totspot
- Michael Broukhim
@Michael, thanks for the comments. I will be sure to give the service a second look at. I have heard nothing but great things about it :)
- Mike Fruchter