The 47th Precinct

Is it a new fad, or is it a solution for the reference or morgue file clippings that I have scattered all over my work area (and desktop)? Hello, image bookmarking! Hopefully, this will be the answer to my inquiry two years from now about the great info graphic in the Sunday times magazine (right now, my best bet is a combination of del.icio.us and google image search), if enough kids start using it loyally (or kids with good taste).

FFFFOUND! :

We heart it :

Potentially an interesting ideation tool, there are two image bookmarking sites that I’ve been looking at. One, I have access to! One, I am angling for an invite to… offering even cupcakes on newstoday for the coveted access. FFFFOUND.COM (ffffound.com) is the headliner, a limited access site (each member gets three invites) with a sophisticated bookmark technique (who doesn’t love smart toolbar tools), and careful consideration of the fact that you are “collecting” other people’s work/images. We heart it (weheartit.com) is an open access site with clean and simple interface, allowing tagging of images. Both (I believe) offer the standard web 2.0 social aspect of friends, etc.

here’s a sample page from ffffound. the conscious effort to represent these images as “reference” and not one’s own is made clear in the “Quoted from:” title. Randomly generated alternate images are listed below.

Here’s a nice article from Speak Up on the ffffound phenomenon!

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