A friend of mine sent me this link to a “animated web log post”
… and it’s pretty funny.  The part that I really liked was that
someone actually took the time to create an animated blog post to
communicate something that they experienced.

This really relates to a project that I am now working on with my
father.  He wanted to begin to record video and audio stories
about his life and his experiences to be posted on the web, or made
available to the family and friends.

My parents are running on a new PC, with Windows XP, and they have the
free copy of Windows Movie Maker.  I am now working with him to
get a newer USB camera with microphone, and then we will begin to go
through the process of practicing how to “capture” his
presentations.  I’m really looking forward to getting this going
so that both my mom and dad can begin to make these recordings. 
It will be fun one day for my kids … or my kids, kids … to be able
to go and listen to stories from their grandparents, or
great-grandparents.

We are entering into an age where teaching and communication of
knowledge is going to radically shift.  We will soon have a much
richer type of historical content that will be available to anyone that
is interested.  I often think about the questions that I would ask
my grand parents about their lives and experiences … I’m glad that
I’ll have the opportunity to ask those questions to my parents, and
have them record their answers in a much richer medium.