A couple of randoms from one of my favourite motoring blogs, Between The White Lines.
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Cartoon by Hugh MacLeod, inspired by WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg’s post over on GigaOm, Open Web FTW.
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I was informed just the other day about The Curator’s Code — a formalised and somewhat over-complicated system, involving special unicode characters generated by a bookmarklet, designed to encourage “curational” bloggers to provide proper attribution to the source of their material.
Whilst I have no doubt its aims are well-meaning, my main objection to The Curator’s Code is not its rather convoluted approach, but its apparent emphasis on the attribution for discovery rather than the more crucially neglected issue of proper attribution for creation.
In light of this I thought I would share with you my process for attribution — a simple little system not involving special characters or secret handshakes — which I call my “Collector’s Code” (because I’m not overly keen on the term “curator”).
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Another cracking find by Johanna from her must-see blog Today you inspired me, which practically every day, inspires me..!
Photo by Tina Hellberg & Idha Lindhag for Swedish Elle Interior.
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Typical of the multitude of non-attributed images you find on Tumblr, for which, despite no end of reverse image searches on Google or TinEye, you are unable to find the author or original source. :/
Via any number of Tumblr blogs.
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One of the interweb’s more “serious” design bloggers has emailed me with the following put down…
“To identify yourself as a design blogger is a bit grandiose. As much content as you regurgitate from others’ sites, a more apt description would be a digital scrap-booker at best.”
Just for the record, since it has never been my intention for my blog to serve any higher purpose than that of a digital scrap-book, then “digital scrap-booker” is a moniker I can live with.
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A small selection from one of my favorite design bloggages, Reform.
It’s a beautifully curated collection of visual delights — my only gripe would be the lack of source information.
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I was pleased to discover that Sample Gallery have included my humble site amongst their selection of fine creative blogs.
The cheque’s in the post, guys. ;)
