"Whirp" is a word we made up. We intend to use it as a noun and as a verb to identify and mobilize our effort to build community and have fun with rapidly emerging media technology. By "media", we mean photos, music and video. We have several implementations underway at present:

• Boca Krewe (friends in and around Boca Raton joined by kinship in municipal governance, enjoyment of Mardi Gras, and many other subjects).
• Youngs (my birth family and related subjects organized under my mother's name from her second marriage)
• Stroud (Nancy's family and our adventures and many related subjects)
• Family DVD (all my families: Stroud, House, Cox, Youngs, and others)

Our main purpose is to learn how to easily organize media so that it can be played, perhaps experimentally, on the main players becoming available today.

Players we are experimenting with which do not require a computer include these:

1. Westinghouse
2. Synaps 15" Digital Photo Frame: superb display, $149, but it only plays items in the order they were saved.
3. Smartparts
5. Western Digital Media Player
7. iPod, iPhone, iTunes.

Western Digital Media Player

The media library is stored in a folder at root on the USB drive called ".wd_tv" (e.g. G:\.wd_tv\).

• http://www.trustedreviews.com/multimedia/review/2008/12/02/Western-Digital-WD-TV-HD-Media-Player/p1
• http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-WD-Media-Player/dp/B001JZFQU4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1244462979&sr=1-1