Comments on: You are what you curate: why Pinterest is hawt

By: darcel

darcel — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:04:40 +0000

After all, everyone is a bit of a magpie…..

By: Andy Morris

Andy Morris — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:48:20 +0000

Just signed up on Pinterest, love it! A picture is worth a thousand words, great resource for everything.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:32:54 +0000

I’m a little violated or vindicated to see the modern version of a poem i wrote in 1993 entitled “what’s inside a girl”. Bravo to the modern! It’s beautiful.

By: Sheena Rajan

Sheena Rajan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:28:47 +0000

This is a great insight into why we like sharing online. But I do beleive there is more to it than our narcassitic needs. I think the reason why we love sites like Tumblr and Pinterest is directly related to how easy it is to digest the type of content being shared: photos. I wrote some thoughts about it here: http://sheenadangers.com/2012/01/whats-with-all-the-internet-eye-candy/ I would love to hear your thoughts about this.

By: Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:03:17 +0000

We made a list of pinners to follow on Pinterest: http://www.pinnerstofollow.com that includes brands, celebs, tastemakers and just awesome pinners. Hope it’s useful!

By: James C. Roberts III

James C. Roberts III — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:45:48 +0000

Check out Glossom.com, for a European platform that can accomplish much the same (and no, I am not part of Glossom or connected to it).

By: Amy Hylden Anderson

Amy Hylden Anderson — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:23:25 +0000

Pinterest is huge with the college crowd, and they have a very different view of ownership than my generation does. Also, thinking about ownership and curation reminds me of the olden days when we used to make cassette tapes for people we really, really liked. It was a lot more effort than making a play list, and it involved using records you owned, but also records you borrowed and sometimes songs you taped off the radio. The point was that when you finished the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. We didn’t think about curation, ownership, or narcissism then. We were thinking about sharing a part of ourselves. Sappy, but true, and speaks to the same human tendencies that drive things like Pinterest.

By: Amy Anderson

Amy Anderson — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:28:16 +0000

The discussion of ownership is very interesting. Pinterest is huge with the college crowd, and they have a very different concept of ownership than previous generations. Also, on the topic of ownership: back in the old days, if you really liked someone, you made them a cassette tape. It took a lot more effort than making playlist, it was a labor of love. Sometimes you owned all the songs and sometimes you borrowed an album or two from a friend and sometimes you even captured a song off the radio. But when you were done, you had a collection that meant sometime more than the sum of its parts. We didn’t worry too much about the ownership part.

By: Ellen Chance

Ellen Chance — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:58:49 +0000

love the concept but had issues with pintrest invites (waiting 2 months, not cool) and the fact you can’t make anything private so i went with http://www.juxtapost.com instead. now i’m addicted to thing. love posting things and sending crafty things to my mom. but it also lets me create private boards so that i can plan events without everyone seeing what im doing.

By: Ian Barkley

Ian Barkley — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:46:12 +0000

Pinterest is really nothing new.. just a better GUI and a little more disregard for image/content copyright than its predecessors. Modern browsers and better UX have opened up opportunities for things like photo message boards to be a bit sexier and with better monetization components (your personal data). 4chan and thousands of old warez sites were the origin of this movement.. Pinterest just added that extra marketability that allowed it to catch fire. I applaud them for dusting off an old, but good idea and taking it mainstream.