[NetBehaviour] Are you on Pinterest?

[Randall Packer]

Interesting conversation about artistic output into the social media
sphere. 

I am obsessively committed to my blog:
http://www.randallpacker.com/

And have been for about 10 years.

Why? Not so much because of the social nature of the medium, but because
it is a database. It is my journal, my personal record, my own repository
of ideas and media. My blog is a springboard for endless project ideas,
most of which will never be realized, but they are documented with a
system of taxonomies that allows this endless torrent of ideas to be
retrieved and reused.

I have a great fear of forgetting: that ideas will simply disappear in the
ether. It is why Ted Nelson helped conceive the Web. This, in my opinion,
is the great crisis in an increasingly complex global information culture.
As an artist with a blog I have some control over memory and access, and I
use it incessantly to track and organize and filter my thinking.

I would be lost without my blog, which is why I have become somewhat of a
disciple of Wordpress. With my blog, I am empowered to become the
archivist of my very own Library of Congress.

Randall


On 6/21/15, 6:37 PM, "BishopZ" <xchicago at gmail.com> wrote:

>I am by no means a Pinterest advocate, but I do have a survey question.
>
>Many of us fancy ourselves as artists - we like to make decisions,
>even if it is only about our own work.
>
>Online digital properties, especially the top 50 trafficked on the
>internet, differentiate themselves, not by content, but by features.
>Pinterest's killer feature is delete. Compared to the competition,
>Pinterest is about curation, and thus they are the only mass online
>medium to, not just allow, but enable and promote deletion.
>
>The business model of nearly every large internet company is to juice
>every individual for-ever-y ounce of click-y-ness and like-y-ness they
>might have. Soak up every drop of interaction and use it to build a
>profile which can be sold. While Pinterest's business model is very
>similar, it is slightly different in a rather interesting way.
>
>Pinterest helps you boil things down, and as an artist that can be a
>very helpful service. Regardless of whether you use the service, you
>must register for an account to observe other people's curated sets.
>
>My question is this:
>
>Do you have a Pinterest account?
>
>How do you feel about the trade-off between blogs and wikis?
>
>How do you feel about the fact that your activity on social networks
>is monitored and sold to companies whose sole interest is to
>manipulate and corrupt you?
>
>Would you rather have no memory, or have to constantly prune?
>
>In appreciation,
>Bz
>
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