Jonathan Harris, as you know is someone I’m a fan of, launched Cowbird this month, which is a visual online diary where you can tie a photo you take with narrative. I think it would actually suit me well (I used to write vignettes daily), but I doubt people in my life would take the time to read this with the rest of my digital footprint of blogs/social networks.

Stories in Cowbird are organized differently. Like any robust content platform, Cowbird has a rich set of tagging options (including the basics like people and places but with some more specialized ones like dedications). These are the heart of how posts on Cowbird relate to one another. For instance, instead of a stream in reverse chronological order based on the posting date, stories in Cowbird are tagged with the date of when the story happened. You can browse a timeline and find two stories next to each other even though they were written months apart because they are about the same event. “We’re not trying to encourage longer stories, per se,” says Harris, “just longer-lasting stories.”

(From Co.Design by Fast Company)