Expanded family and better technology

So, I am the proud father of a baby girl.  She entered the world on Dec 16th of this year and has been sleeping for a week solid.  I have taken some time off of work to sleep too, but have found myself running around trying to do stuff that I normally can't do when working M-F. 

My wife and I already have a son.  He's 4 years-old now.  One of the side benefits of children is that it sort of requires you to wrangle images together in the form of photos and video; and by doing so, keeps you up to date on technology.  I suppose you could shoot on film and then snail mail the photos around to nana, papa, auntie and uncle. 

I'm hardpressed to find a better distribution method right now than the simple Facebook photo upload tool. Between my wife and me I think we're spreading news of our newborn with photos and status updates to over 200ppl.  Could be more.  I don't think Facebook was where it's at now 4 years ago, or at least I wasn't a college student using it then.  Sadly, my 4-year-old son doesn't benefit from the technological advances of photo sharing in the social media landscape.  Or maybe he actually appreciated his privacy. 

I doubt very much at this stage in our technological journey both as parents and media consumers that we'll ever pull out our mini-dvd handheld sony dv camera.  We shot hours of our son on it, but now it's pretty much serving as a vcr for those inconvenient mini dvds that won't play on a dvd and won't edit on a pc. 

For our new daughter, and now for our preschooler, we've found the revolutionary Flip camera with it's built in hard drive and native editing software that makes shooting, cutting and sending low res compressed mpegs a real pleasure rather than a fools errand.  My mother is able to click on a link that serves the videos I've shot.  I can easily burn off the vids to a dvd if i want or keep them on the Flip servers. Granted business's fail and digital media in the cloud might necessitate some hard copy backup, but at least I don't need to worry about getting some video of my kids and actually showing it to people outside my house. 

Now, I know mac users like my brother have thrived with imovie but even he sings the Flip's praises. 

*Note: I am not being paid by Flip for this blog entry.

Well, my daughter is stirring so I will grab the camera and then upload some more jpegs to Facebook today.