Every Boomer Can Now Record for Posterity their Memory of the 1960s

Dec. 27, 2008 - PRLog -- On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the 1960s--a unique website allows all boomers to record their memories of the 1960s.

BabyBoom Review  (www.babyboomreview.com )  the first website to inject wiki technology to support a community dedicated to reflecting on the art, culture and politics of their youth, launches The 60s Time Maps Project  a way all boomers can document their memories of the sixties.  The  60s Time Maps Project  is a  global experiment that promises to revolutionize the way the history of the sixties will get written. Future historians must now take into account, in addition to all the traditional sources, the perspectives of people whose eyewitness accounts, and recollections will individually and collectively shed light on major and minor events.  The founders of BabyBoom Review  created this unique memory tapestry as a historical analogue to the wikipedia. BabyBoom Review Co-founder Laurence Peters comments,

"Just as the wiikipedia competes with the great encylopedias as reliable sources--read collectively-- the short 30-600 word accounts of an event that someone witnessed or moments experienced--such as a Woodstock concert, a campus sit-in or first hearing an influential album--can help understand a fuller more human context in which history occurs."

The 60s Time Maps Project  can help co-founder Mike Peters adds "would be boomer memoirists gain confidence in their writing skills, preserve their memories for their family and future generations and test their understanding as others add to or annotate their memory using other sources such as newspaper accounts, other contemporary witnesses and even other written or photographic documents."

Advanced Wiki technology on the baby boom review website provides the facility not only for people to post their contribution but also to comment on the contributions of others. In this way, as memories are supplemented, questioned and modified, a map of the Sixties will emerge – a map composed of stories the newspaper and other accounts of the day may have missed or inaccurately documented.    

"One of the great advantages of The 60s Time Maps Project " comments Laurence Petes is that you dont have to be a geek to participate in the Project is to join babyboomreview as a member --a free sign up at www.babyboomreview.com and then just click on The 60s Time Maps Project  and go to the relevant year and enter your short memory remembering to list the date.

Prizes of 2009 Kennedy Engagement Calendars (photos of the Who, Barbara Streisland and Morgan Freeman) will be awarded for the first four boomers to write the most interesting memory.

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www.babyboomreview.com
BabyBoom Review is a website that is the first website dedicated to boomer memories of their youth using wiki technology. This means once you join you can write reviews of books, music and movies that are /were important to you as a boomer.