My Great Big Internet Experiment

Here's Kid B throwing anything she can find into the river near our house. Mostly leaves. And twigs. And - given half a chance - my Blackberry. Bless her and her destructive tendencies. 

I've been thinking that I should take more photos. The Better Half bought a camera for my birthday a few years ago and it only comes out on special occasions. 

With Kid C on the way, I thought it might be good to do, maybe, one photo a day for the first year of his life. And, hell, it might make this blog look a bit prettier. 

I was tweeting while I was taking the above photo and thinking about Flickr and social networking and things. I can multi-task with the best of them. I was thinking that this whole social networking thing has made me less misanthropic. I'm actually interested in other human beings that I don't have a romantic or biological connection to. I want to know more. But not in a scary stalker way. 

How about this for an idea? Once a month, we get as many people as possible around the world to take a photograph at the same time, write a caption no longer than the now traditional 140 characters and then post it somewhere. Webcam, camera phone, Huge SLR job, anything that records an image. We'll either upload to a Flickr album or I'll set up a blog.

We'll alter the times to get a cross-section of life. So, first photograph on 1st April at mid-day GMT, second photo 1st May at one o'clock, third photo on 1st June at 2 o'clock. It could be a year in the world's life. 

It's all just a rough idea at the moment, but I think it could be really interesting. What do you think? Let me know. We've only got a couple of weeks before 1st April to mobilise the troops!!!

And thank you for letting me use the word "misanthropic". Always wanted to. Never had the chance until now.

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