Hope all is well with you and yours. I would love to see some actual Genealogy news posted here, or maybe some news about a family event. Perhaps some remarkable achievement by a Carpenter relative? But since nobody has shared any news with me for quite some time, I will just tell you more about what's cooking with the website. Simmering slowly more like...
I have some pretty cool things simmering for the website that would allow more people to become directly involved in the editing of the site if I can recruit some good people. Nothing dramatic can happen until I can carve out some time to work on it, but the website is never entirely forgotten.
Except by spammers, which is another challenge I am working on. The spammers have ONLY bothered myself and Joe Clarkson so far because we receive the submissions from the Email forms. I will likely add a CAPTCHA to fool them. I am favoring reCAPTCHA because it has a secondary benefit of also helping to convert books in the public domain so they can be read online by current and future generations:
What is reCAPTCHA? <a target="_blank" href="http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html">http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html</a>
"A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. ... reCAPTCHA [also] improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher."
CONTENT?
New content comes to this site at a notoriously slow pace, but still, I will keep asking. If anyone knows about any new content for the website, please let me know, or encourage whomever has news to submit an article or post to the Forum.
It has been a while since the website had anything really new. I posted an open invitation last month and have gotten no response. I know things are probably slow, but I also know that babies are being born and people are making trips to see the old home places. I just know that someone somewhere has news. Have you taken a trip to an old home place?
New photos? Want to add your collection to the image gallery? The space on the Photos site is unlimited, so I can accommodate all of your photos. Send me an Email and we can make arrangements for you to either send me one or more data CDs or DVDs. If you are more technically minded, I can also arrange a few different methods for transferring the files.
For example, you can share up to a Gigabyte for free on Box.net (<a href="http://www.box.net" target="_blank">http://www.box.net</a>).
Box.net - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Content Management, Access Documents & Files Anywhere, Backup Data, Send Files
"Box.net was originally founded in 2005 as a college business project with a vision of connecting people, devices and networks. Launched officially in March of 2006, Box.net currently provides secure online file storage and sharing functionality to over 750,000 registered users, serving files to millions of people around the world. Box.net's unique platform allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere."
http://www.box.net/about
I am also considering turning the Announcements blog into a "community" which would allow a few select individuals to post to that same Announcements page. There may a few people who are active enough in the family to have more to say and we could keep that page updated more often that way. if you are interested in helping out with this, then please get in touch with me.
I have been swamped with new clients, which is great for business, but also pulls me away from personal projects like this website. When I get to doing all this stuff, I will let you know here, or you can just come back and check out the website periodically and look for changes.
: Joseph William Carpenter
: Albuquerque, NM
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