Simon Fanshawe, author of The Done Thing, a book about modern manners, says the idea will only be embraced outside times of crisis if there are authority figures organising it.
Yet Gawker has become, as much as the Times and the Drudge Report, a portal to the world of information that I consume, and a filter for interpreting it an endlessly updating book of urban manners.
They're also hammering out details with a book partner, hoping to give end users the ability to customize memory albums and buy all manners of unique covers.