Mashable (currently ranked 13 among blogs worldwide) wrote a little article called: “MemoryPress Lets You Create Online Scrapbooks” early this morning. It is great to be recognized, even if MemoryPress isn’t exactly an “Online Scrapbook”.

I am not a “scrapper”. A couple years ago I made the mistake of relating what is now MemoryPress to scrapbooking. My sister corrected me, “scrapbooking is about the little bits and pieces, the glue, and the cutting. The scraping part of it makes scrapbooking fun.” Here is Wikipedia on Scrapbooking:

“Making scrapbooks is a hobby relating to pasting newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photos, usually personal, or other memorabilia into custom-decorated albums, or scrapbooks.”

Online or digital scrapbooking makes little sense to me because it takes the “scrap” out of scrapbooking, leaving us with just booking.

MemoryPress is a typesetting system, like a user-friendly version of TeX, Adobe InDesign, or QuarkXpress. MemoryPress is built to help you professionally publish your personal or family history with ease and very little cost. Because it is web-based MemoryPress allows online collaboration with your family and friends.

A few days ago Max mentioned that we seem “obsessed” with book quality, and typesetting. I told Neal that I think this is great! Other than writing your personal or family history there are just a few things that really matter when you are publishing your personal or family history. Two of those things are: how professional your personal or family history is going to look (typesetting), and how long your personal or family history is going to last (your book binding).

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