Really what I want is for it to fetch all the images from all of those emails with the word "serengeti" and display them in a thumbnail grid, like how Google Images does it. Tap an image to print it. This would really help my flow in creating collages!

Seems like it would be simple enough to do using the API Bret is using to fetch our email and Flowsheets, right? If Bret and Glen want to point me to the appropriate information I could try to cobble this together, or we could do it together sometime in Flowsheets.

This application might be a way in towards a lab-wide Memex. The Memex would capture all of the photos and videos we take and send each other, all the text we write, and importantly all the associations between text and images (captions, etc) and text and text (email "threads", links, etc). It would take in all our whiteboard collages, which are mostly curations/associations of existing material (media from the web, media generated in our lab). The Memex would also encompass associations of physical objects to their "source files", like the Apparatus laser station we discussed on Friday.

I think the bootstrapping jam was less successful than the imagination jam because the scope was too broad. It was about bootstrapping our communication in all its forms (replacing the email list, various forms of chat, project management, etc) and also about bootstrapping programming. These cover a wide territory and contributed to the unfocused feeling of the meeting, imo.

Maybe we could try calling our next jam (March 22) a "Memex Jam". We would reread Bush's Memex paper beforehand and then prototype/draw/act out some aspect of that system on Kitchen Sync. This would focus the communication aspect towards "an enlarged intimate supplement to one's memory" and also as a throwback to 1945 help us think past the work habits around email, files, etc that surround us in our day-to-day.