Wednesday Peeps...half way through the work week!
Here's my card for today:
I ADORE The Craft's Meow Sew Lovely Set:
Each of my stamped panels have been heat embossed in dark brown.
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Pinterest Debate
So, I'd love to hear what you all feel about the Pinterest debate....I've been waffling on deleting my boards...ugh....how about you? I'll sling out some blog candy to a random POV on the topic...I'd really like to know how it all hits you. I'll keep the commenting open until Saturday, March 18th @ 11:59 pm PDT. I know that alot of you are pinners....
Comments
Naomi
xoxo
I've been following the Pinterest thing and I'm interested to see how it develops. I haven't deleted my own boards, but really the only pins I'd be sad to lose are the recipes. I'm trying to go through my recipe board now and make up recipe cards for the ones we've tried and like. Just in case one day the site has gone "poof!"
As for Pinterest, I have not pinned but I love the idea behind Pinterest. On the other hand, I understand the difference between viewing someone's work and "saving" it to my board where someone else might take it and "use" it. I see the potential danger and understand the photographer's concern.
Your card..wow! Vintage gorgeousness!
I will probably upset a few people by saying this, but I believe that when you put something onto the web you are being naive to think no-one is going to 'use' it. Is that not why we post?... to share ideas and give inspiration to others. I have a Pinterest account, although I don't use it much personally. However, Joy will have to stop making those fabulous inspiration boards for the Jay Gee's challenges :(
Not sure how I feel about Pinterest yet. Thought I would give it a try for a while and see what all the fuss was about. It might end up like Twitter for me. I tried that but soon realized it really wasn't useful to me. As far as the copyright issue goes—not to clear on that either. I haven't pinned anyone's artwork or photography. I've pinned photos of products I love, I'm hoping that wouldn't be a problem because I'm actually promoting them. I can see how artists, photographers and others that create visual materials might take issue with it. For example; When I decided to use Design Seeds color palettes on my blog I asked their permission, followed their copyright guidelines and credited them properly. I'm not sure how all of that relates to Pinterest. I'll have to read more about it.
Thanks for bringing up the topic Amy!
Anyhoo....soapbox over....lol!! I loveeeeeeeeeeeee your card! I loveeeeeeeeeee the colors and loving the vintage feel to it!!!
I have always been kinda iffy about Pinterest. I've got an account, but don't use it. Did try pinning a couple of things at the beginning, just to try to figure it all out, but that's been it for me. Occasionally, I go look to see the beautiful things. But just have never really gotten into it. Now with the debate going on, I'm even more hesitant to get involved.
As for Pinterest I am a frequent pinner, but don't really go back to it once it is pinned so will have to decide whether to shut it down or keep it and see what happens. I agree with Jay Gee though, when you put it on the internet you know people are going to view it and if they like it they are either going to copy and save it to their hard drive or they are going to PIN it.
Like Julie, I am using Pinterest as my bookmarks... Aren't all the content linked to the original sources? Once you put something on your blog there is no control where it is going to appear anyway... I am keeping my boards.
Lovin' this vintage beauty! Totally rockin' that DP too, girlie!
Hmmmm....Pinterest debate is certainly food for thought. I do believe that whatever you put out on the Internet you do so at the risk of others using it. I thought Pinterest removed content if copyright concerns arose and I also was aware of a fair use policy with copyright and figured that acknowledging the source (when you click on the pic) and putting a comment about the pin would deemed fair use...! I certainly don't mind people pinning my work and I love the idea of sharing inspiration. I'll be keeping my boards for the moment but will have an eye on what's happening legally!
Hugs!
Aimes
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And the stamps are beautiful!
Hugs,
Martha
ok my thoughts on pinterest:
don't use it that much but when i do it is as julie said, for a bookmark as it is nice to have a photo to see what the site is about. ;)
i only pin someones work (cards) if they have a watermark on them.
i always watermark my items so if someone does pin them i wouldn't mind at all :)
once it is on my blog it is out there in cyber land anyway.
I haven't deleted any of my boards...I really like seeing all my inspirations in one spot.Personally, I feel that the internet is a place for sharing. And if due credit is given, I don't see the sharing as a problem.
I'm thinking of deleting mine too. So many "social media" programs out there and soooo little time. I can't keep up anymore. I just want to craft and not be pressured to join this and that. Can't a sistah just scrap all day and leave the other stuff behind???? LOL :) :)
sigh...
as for pintrest, i waited a long time before i gave in & started pinning. then when i did, i just loved looked at a variety of pretty things all in one spot. not sure what i'll do but i'm only pinning what i really love now.
As for Pinterest... bummer! I only just started getting into it. I totally see Kirsten's point about having a choice of where your photos end up. However, as the digital age progresses I think copywriting issues are only going to get harder and harder to deal with.
Ohhh the Pinterest debate. I loove the idea of it and actually everything about it, but the site DOES take the whole copyrighted piece of material rather than just thumbnails. I haven't signed up because that's been in the back of my mind for month's now. I hate really falling in love with something, like I really/truly/totally did with Napster {I downloaded hundreds of megs of songs back when people weren't even talking about hundreds of megs!!}, and I downloaded from people who I know were sued and had to pay. Me? Was fortunate because I chose not to allow people to download FROM me, so somehow that got some of us off the hook. I realize that the founder didn't start Pinterest with the intention of defying copyright laws, but neither did Napster. We know what's paved with good intentions, not don’t we!!!??
I never got into browsing on pinterest- the boards I have are basically replacing the bookmarks I have in my web browser and on my google reader. I am not deleting my boards yet, but if I need to in the future, I'll just go back to bookmarking.