The Snailr Project

The Snailr postcard

A blogger I read frequently, Meish.org, brought my attention to a cute little collaborative art/travel sharing idea, the Snailr project.

Like Twitter for the real world, the instigator of Snailr decided that, instead of posting Twitter or Facebook updates, instead of leaving answering machine messages or blog posts about her progress on her trip around the United States, she would instead send snippets of observations about her journey to…well, anyone who wanted one, on small postcards.

Why? She says:

The idea is that, when pieced together, the messages will form an overall picture of the journey, and have some kind of travel narrative. In actuality, they’ll just be spread across the globe. They are short pieces of a longer journey – updates and glimpses that you would get from Twitter, but more personal and more tangible: an individually just a snatched moment out of context.

I love this idea.  The precious, artistic quality of the mailed object these days makes the project that much more interesting.  Any ideas on how to start one of these for yourself? How would you do it?