The Friday Fillip

The Beeb, home to much that is creative, has done it again. They’re hosting a site called Memoryshare, the title to which pretty much tells it all. The simple notion is that viewers log in to leave their memories of a time gone by, whether a day or decades in the past. Each nostalgic note is represented as a coloured blob in a time spiral that goes back to 1900. Hovering over a blog causes an excerpt to pop up so you can judge whether this is a memory you want to visit.

Now there’s not much in this for you unless you’re British or spent some time in the UK you’d like to revisit. But the idea appeals to me. And I think a memoryshare site for Canada — with the added ability to leave photos and maybe recordings — would be a great idea. Facebook and Twitter clearly show that people must express themselves, but they’re “pre-memory” sharing sites; there’s room for a virtual place for Canadians to tell their stories in a more reflective fashion, to say how it was when the dust settled and the tweeting fell silent, an About-Face Book, perhaps.