When Milan was born we used Twitter and Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos... is our set. - Robert Scoble

Simultaneous. Ping.fm - Ben Parr

We used TwitterGram to record audio of his cry. That cry is already gone. Sigh. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert Scoble

@oprah - Johnny

maybe ask someone to build a new service called baby.fm for JUST twitter style messages re: babies. you and louis gray could fill that mofo up! - drew olanoff

Heheh. No, what happens is if you don't announce it then the family just keeps bugging you until they know what's going on. - Robert Scoble

i disagree with doing this. but i respect anyone who want to share this publicly :) - Ouriel Ohayon

baby.fm/scobles - drew olanoff

i will just wait for the kid's growing up so that he can tweet himself.. kekeh :) - RICK CHOI

The problem is the family will likely to be the last to know if you use the web... Grandma does not check twitter very often! - Ben

Definitely Facebook statuses. That's what all my friends did when their baby showed up! :) You kinda don't want the world to know... just the people who know you! - Jackie Miao

Better yet, on baby.fm, friends and family can follow you and choose how they want the alert. - drew olanoff

sms to family + twitter. family proceeded to spread rumors on facebook, saving us the trouble. - Leyla M

Have Kanye interrupt... worked for him - Johnny

Justin.TV Stream it live! *just kidding* - Adam Jackson

Keep it simple - Facebook and Twitter - Mike Doeff

What about something like: http://hasthelargehadroncollid... - Johnny

i second US mail. i have a copy of one that my parents sent out when i was born and it's pretty meaningful to me :) - Alexis Hope

johnny, i love that. haha. - Alexis Hope

email broadcast :) - esaarem

Jackie: actually letting the world know last time on Twitter was really great. Lots of people follow us and want to know what's up. - Robert Scoble

Probably a combination twitter and PicasaWeb. - Adam Martin

Anyway, looks like the baby has a good chance of coming Saturday. - Robert Scoble

Drew: baby.fm is a bad URL. Are you sure about that? - Robert Scoble

Robert, make sure to enjoy the moment! - Mike Doeff

Mike: the moment is always fun and crazy. Looking at the pictures of Milan I can't believe that was just two years ago. Time is going too fast! - Robert Scoble

Email Gallery to Posterous >> E V E R Y W H E R E - Tanner Powell

Cinch! http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com - Jesse Stay

Robert, I just told Alan Levy, their CEO, to contact you about a new product they're working on that would work well for that. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: Cinch will have potentially the same problem that twittergram had. How do you know they will still be in business five years from now? - Robert Scoble

But I do like BlogTalkRadio and hope they do stick around and would love to use them for Ryan's birth. - Robert Scoble

Robert, it's RSS, and the audio's downloadable. You can back it all up. - Jesse Stay

Your Google Reader will have backups. So will FriendFeed (assuming it's around) - Jesse Stay

Jesse: yeah, right. Audio on my hard drive is lame compared to audio on the Internet. - Robert Scoble

Robert, Google Reader and FriendFeed aren't on your hard drive. :-) - Jesse Stay

That's the same problem with any company you do something like that with - it's up to you to have backups in place to be sure your data stays around after they go away. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: quick: find that audio on my Google Reader. You can't. FriendFeed wasn't even in existence when Milan was born. Shows how fast this industry moves. - Robert Scoble

That's why you've got to add it to your Google Reader, or save it as a backup. - Jesse Stay

The highest bidder? - Andrew Warner from iPhone

Jesse: what's funny is I rarely use Google Reader today. It's so slow for me that I can't bear to open it up. - Robert Scoble

It makes a good backup though, and Google will be around for awhile :-) - Jesse Stay

Jesse: remember Google's Dodgeball? So much for being around for awhile. - Robert Scoble

Robert, that risk is with everything you do online, which is why you can't use that for an excuse. If you want a backup, put it on disk somewhere, which is what Cinch allows you to do. At least it automates the distribution for you though. - Jesse Stay

Have Rackspace set up a script that reads the RSS from cinch and stores each file on a backup somewhere. Or trust Cinch to do that. Or do it manually. RSS is the most basic form of distribution so you can do what you want with it. - Jesse Stay

Note that I have no financial obligation to Cinch - I just like Alan Levy. He took me and Dave Winer to a Mets game while I was out there. :-) - Jesse Stay

I also like the basic premise - it's nice and open and easy to work with at the very basic level. - Jesse Stay

Use 'em all - phone calls, sms, Twitter, Facebook, FF, blog post, etc. I'd love to get cards printed up and send them out, but dang, that would get expensive at 55c per card just for postage, plus when do you find time with a newborn in the house? - Headless Gnad Kicker

Robert: Twitter's not mainstream in SE Asia yet. I've observed that most folks here are still relying on Facebook to reach out. Twitter works great for public figures who engage generously with their followers like yourself, though I wonder if that works as well for career network marketers with 15k+ followers. I don't think most of their followers actually care... I think regional trends, activity level, size and nature of an individual's reach on existing services they're already using is a factor to what he/she ends up using. Though if we're telling the world, maybe all services including one's own blog. Search engines pick that up and one can go crazy with the photos and video sharing. - Jackie Miao

Jesse: the thing is if you can't get to your items it doesn't matter that you have them backed up. Everyone's Tweets are still online, but no one can get to them. Backups won't help. - Robert Scoble

Robert, you can get them when they come out. Remember your blog? Again, with anything you store it's your responsibility to make sure you get a backup. Also, if you talk to Alan Levy you may like what he's working on - it may solve some of your concerns. - Jesse Stay

FWIW I lost the first cries of my baby as well - need to ask Alan if they still have backups. I was stupid for not downloading it at the time. - Jesse Stay

My Ustreams of it all are still up though: http://staynalive.com/article... (just the before and after shots, don't worry) - Jesse Stay

Ustream is extremely hard to backup - I wish they provided RSS like Cinch. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: oh, that's right, wasn't Twittergram a service of BlogTalkRadio? - Robert Scoble

twitter of course! Then we'll all know exactly the same time as you! LOL - Technogran

Oh and Ben, this Granny checks twitter all the time! - Technogran

Robert, yeah - they did Twittergram, and are now shifting that focus to Cinch in a much less platform-reliant manner - Jesse Stay

Jesse: can you ask them about Twittergram? It would be nice to get that MP3 out of the system. - Robert Scoble

Use the oral/aural tradition. Write a poem or a song. Play, speak or sing it. Record it. Publish it everywhere, everyway. It will be heard and remembered. The media will not be the message. The message will be the message. - David Newman from iPhone

David: If I were a poet or a songwriter, that's what I would do. I'm not. But I can take video, shoot pictures, and write. So that's what I'll do. - Robert Scoble

The local paper, to be sure that the baby can survive Birthers when he's up for the presidency. - Kevin Fox

Robert yeah - thanks for reminding me btw. I want to get my baby's first cries out of there as well. :-) I'll ask Alan. - Jesse Stay

I forgot to get a copy of the local paper for our last baby. I was too focused online. He'll be the only one of our kids without one. I keep kicking myself for that! - Jesse Stay

Tyson, @maryamie held a contest among our close friends. Most of them thought it would happen next week. Ryan's due date is September 26th. But looks like it might happen Saturday. They are pulling us in for a procedure and they said it will probably start the process on Saturday. We will know by noon on Saturday, though, what's up. - Robert Scoble

The baby will be a boy or girl? - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Jannifer: it's a boy. His name will be Ryan Soroush Scoble. Yes, RSS. - Robert Scoble

OH that is awesome!!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Tyson: and Milan's initials are MS and his middle name is William, same as Gates' first name (and my dad's). So how's that for geekdom! :-) - Robert Scoble

The Pony Express! - Johan Bakken

Tyson: I doubt this conversation will last online until he's old enough to care about looking back. - Robert Scoble

it is perhaps that i am developing a luddite side but it seems such a strange question to ask - put it in one place and it will cascade naturally everywhere anyway, and I imagine you'll be busy with real in person things... PS: or make someone's day and use a service you dont use much or havent used yet... - Iphigenie

If you have to do it online email. - Crispin Heath

You should go with some form of SAP installation. - Rich Puskarich

Alternative thought: Let Maryam decide. - Sue

Don't say a thing online. Tell your friends and see how long it takes to 'leak' online. - Andrew Leyden

@qik & a Flip camera? Qik will go to Youtube automatically, tell twitter/fb/ff. Flip for higher quality and backup? photos - send it to @pixelpipe :-) - Courtney Engle

Robert, you should check out Cinch again. www.cinchcast.com I can get you the iphone app pre release but it works on your mobile phone as well. The app can add photo's and text to your audio file. - alan

OurDoings because 1. OurDoings is here to stay, 2. You'll be busy, 3. OurDoings captures the story like nothing else. http://ourdoings.com/2009-09... - Bruce Lewis

When our sonwas born two months ago, I used thisMoment.com for photo and video which in turn sent updates to Twitter, ff, facebook. Now? I would probably just email them to posterous and have posterous do notices to keep it simple. - Brett G from iPhone

Shepherds have been known to be used. For my own kids, we called some by phone then emailed the balance of people. Of course I eagerly updated the baby pool website (http://bebepool.com <--100% bias for me to mention that, btw) to see whose predications were closest. But, all of these are old school methods, I'm sure you'll come up with something creative. :) - Micah

I used TwitPic (via PockeTwit on my PDA) to announce Tim Mackaaij - http://twitter.com/mackaai... while my homepage was temporary a realtime embed of FriendFeed. I showed a room which also imported my @mentions. On a seperate page I chose to show only tweets by me using this Yahoo Pipe http://bit.ly/3EDpa (which was not imported realtime by FriendFeed). If I had to do it over I'd look into a mobile client for FriendFeed and use that solely. - Patrick Mackaaij

Congratulations Robert... may God bless you and yours : ) - Mark Harai

Congrats Robert. - Al Stevens

my family around the globe has announced new babies via Facebook! Still tends to be more personal. Congrats! - Michelelarge