Pinterest...do I love it or hate it?
To be honest I'm not sure. I have noticed that some of you don't allow your work to be pinned.
To be honest I didn't know I had that option. How do you do that anyway?
I would love your opinion....the good, the bad and the ugly.
I was about to jump on the bandwagon but something is holding me back. I think my biggest reservation is that I'm not notified when I'm being pinned...honest, I didn't feel a single prick. I didn't feel a thing with the re-pinning either...what's that about?
With Flickr we see who favours our work and we see the comments, which seems more ethical to me.
I would love your honest take on this.
I have my doubts about pinning too, although I have joined. I have reasoned that the images at Pinterest are very small and so noone can capture detail without going back to the original post which you could do if you bookmarked the page anyway. If an artist asks that their images are not copied or pinned I don't pin them but I don't know how to stop anyone pinning mine. Pinterest are planning to enable an optout if you don't want your images pinning but I don't know when that will be.
ReplyDeleteHi You can find out about the "opt out code" here http://pinterest.com/about/help/ Scroll down to the section Linking to your Blog or Website and click What if I don't want images from my site to be pinned. There's a bit of HTML which you can copy. Now if you go to the design page of Blogger for example, you have the option to edit HTML of your blog - click on Edit HTML, read down the HTML until you find the section that begins head (in angle brackets) and paste in that copy.
ReplyDeleteInteresting article via Carina's Craftblog http://greekgeek.hubpages.com/hub/Is-Pinterest-a-Haven-for-Copyright-Violations
and you may also find http://linkwithlove.typepad.com/linkwithlove/what-we-are.html interesting.
I love your quilts!
I find it a little creepy, especially if you check out
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I am on the fence at the minute, but I may well put a halt to it..
Great subject! For me...I do have a pinterest...but am not addicted...I've all ready got other addictions I need to work on (blogging..he.he.:o)) Anyway..I think for me anyway, it's been a HUGE way for my ruler and patterns to get out there on the net! It really is amazing the connections it makes and always links back to the original. I LIKE IT!! As far st the the ugly...that will come out no matter what...anywhere, anyway it can't be stopped, sadly!
ReplyDeleteI love pinkerest. It is a great place to gather inspiration. I have found so many links from the photo's to other people's blogs, stores, patterns for sale, tutorials, tips, and resources from it. I think it is a wonderful tool.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a member of Pinterest but a lot of my photos are out there. It leads other people to your blog (more readers/followers). I only found out about it by checking 'by referrals' in sitemeter. Every so often I check that out to see where people came from to find my blog and I started noticing pinterest. Then I clicked on one and found out I could find a page that showed every photo of mine that anyone has ever pinned. At first I thought it was creepy too, but now I look at it as advertisement to come to my blog and read.
ReplyDeleteI love to be able to follow the posts on Pinterest back to the original blogs; blogs that I might have missed otherwise. Pinterest provides both inspiration and a chance to enjoy and admire so many talented bloggers and quilters.
ReplyDeleteI pintrest and use it to catalogue all the things that I find on the web that
ReplyDelete1. as a reference on things I'd love to go back to
2. inspirational images
I've stored this info in the past on my PC but lost it all when the PC died - here I don't have that worry
It is best though when the links take you back to the creator / original blog posts etc
Huh. I guess I don't get the issue with people being able to pin stuff from my blog. I see it as a huge compliment, that someone admires and is inspired by my work enough to want to refer to it again. Also, my blog is intentionally public, and everything on there is public. If I wanted something to be private, or not shared/ disseminated publicly, I wouldn't blog it. The reason I blog is to share, and Pinterest is just another platform for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI love Pinterest, but there's been a lot of discussion lately regarding the legality of it. Here's an interesting read.
ReplyDeletehttp://ddkportraits.com/2012/02/why-i-tearfully-deleted-my-pinterest-inspiration-boards/
Pinterest is really just another way to bookmark things you want to get back to, but other people can see what you have bookmarked. I don't think there is an ethical issue here, and pinterest is actually a more public way to flag a blog page than a personal bookmark. The search selfsewn sets out lets you see what others have pinned from your blog. And the pins all include the source as part of the exercise. I use it to keep track of those photos and projects I like when the bloggers do not connect their photos to flickr. But some people get hooked at looking other people's pins and that uses a lot of extra time up.
ReplyDeleteI do belong to Pinterest, but really don't use it that much. I'm not sure it differs much from bookmarking, which you aren't notified about either.
ReplyDeleteI just did a blog post on Pinterest too! (http://www.eschhousequilts.blogspot.com/2012/02/are-you-on-pinterest.html) I do get emails when people repin my stuff. Maybe there is something to change in your settings?
ReplyDeleteI am going to try to remember to watermark my blog photos in the future so my name stays with the picture. It seems like on Pinterest, sometimes it stays and sometimes not. Like all of these platforms, it has some issues, but I'm really having fun with it.
I only Pin what I can't fave in flickr. I don't put it into my computer favorites because it will be gone if my computer crashes. And the funny part is that I have no clue how to go back and look at what I pinned! Then I get emails telling me so and so is following my pinterest and would I like to follow theirs back.....NO I would not is what I say. I already have more inspiration than I can handle in blogs and in flickr. And I don't facebook or tweet either.
ReplyDeleteI love pinterest and I don't mind when people pin my blog posts. I guess if I did I wouldn't have a blog. It's seems like a great way to organize the sites you want to revisit and the pictures take you right back to the source. I'm sure they are some bad points but I have to believe that people that have web sites must like the extra traffic.
ReplyDeleteyou can find out who's pinning you here:
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(put your blog name in the "your domain) spot
and you can opt out here:
http://pinterest.com/about/help/
I've sent them a request for clarification with respect to who owns the work that you post on Pinterest (i.e. their user terms seem to imply that they own images I post of my OWN work); but if that's cleared up favourably - I like Pinterest very much - it's brought a lot of traffic to my blog and I've gotten two sales out of it. :)
I have found it a great way to find a quilt later ... yes, if it's on Flickr I can favorite it, but if it's on a blog, it's kinda silly to have a blog book marked 6 different times and invariably, I forget who made what quilt. The reason I like Pinterest is how it organizes it by board and then takes me straight back to the URL for the site where I liked it. It brings a fair amount of traffic to my blog, which tells me that other people like my stuff too ;-)
ReplyDeleteI use it, a little, if there's something that I really like and want to remember where I saw it. I know I can see any of my blogposts that have had pictures pinned, but it how can I see what Flickr images have been pinned? I know they have been as I see the source code in Flickr and when I go to check, I see it came from my Flickr stream, but ti is just tagged generically as Flickr.
ReplyDeleteI use pinterest as inspiration and to remember where I saw items. However, I always try to pin from the original site and give credit to the author/creator. PS. I've read and read your tutorials on quilt as you go, trying to get ready to dive in and do it. I love your quilts.
ReplyDeleteHi, I'm Cheryl, I'm sorry that you feel pinterest is potentially disrespectful of your work. I use it to collect together things such as household tips, as well as quilts I admire. I find it helpful to see the quilts I admire together, as it helps me identify the common factors between them and clarify the directions I want to explore without in any way wanting to 'copy' any of the quilts. As someone who is not good with computers a friend invited me to pinterest otherwise I probably wouldn't have mastered it. As you can see I don't have other accounts. I have ME and at times when I am too tired to manage much else, pinterest gives me much pleasure as well as leading me to blogs and sites I wouldn't have found otherwise. As someone else whose daughter has ME said to me, the internet has changed the lives of those who are housebound very much for the better ( fortunately I am well enough to work part-time myself). I do of course always try to name the quilter in my comment when I pin. I greatly admire your work and always enjoy visiting your blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for taking the time to comment Cheryl....I'm finding all the comments very helpful.
DeleteHere is my philosophy: If we don't want something to be pinnable, it shouldn't be posted on the Web.
ReplyDeleteSomebody pinning my quilt is no different, access-wise, than bookmarking the URL, except that whoever follows their board will also potentially see my quilt. At least those pins always come back to the source page. (But then, theoretically anyone could see my pages, anyway, from surfing or googling, because I haven't restricted them to be entirely private.)
Although many of us use our blogs as journal-type areas, they are in fact public domains unless we've blocked them from public view. If you don't want something pinned, do not put it up on the Web. (The same way that if you want to keep a secret, do not talk about it in line at WalMart - you may only be directing your words at the person you're speaking with, but everyone around you can potentially hear what you're saying.)
Oops :) But I also think we should be noting the person whose work we pin and the name of their piece. I'm trying to be more thorough that way.
ReplyDeletehttp://paintdropskeepfalling.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/pinterest-pandemonium/
ReplyDeleteI have just read this and as a newbie to pinterest I don't know what to think!
I love it. I use to see things that I liked and think I would remember where I saw it.Even following a blog did not really help, as time went by what ever i liked was harder to find.
ReplyDeleteI pin things that I like, I want to show someone or I want to make
I never try to represent things as being mine. And, I suspect that if people do things that are not "right" then they would do them one way or another.
If I posted pictures of my kids or family children, I do not think I would want to allow those to be pinned, but if I am posting them where everyone can see them, then dumb me.
I guess we are saving trees as I am not printing out everything I see, I also go back and toss out things-
by the way I am notified when someone copies something that I have pinned. I have contacted the "owner" of the pin and let them know that their work is being re pinned. And I have had nice thank you notes from them when I did.
again, it is the person , not the system.
Thanks for taking the time to comment....I love hearing everyone's point of view.
DeleteHi, Marianne. I think pinterest is pretty cool for looking at stuff. However, I thought I wanted to have my own "board" and then realized that I really didn't want to ding around with it--too much to do as it is. I agree with Lynn CC that if you don't want your work floating around in the public domain, keep it off the internet. That doesn't mean I don't think copyrights shouldn't be respected--on the contrary that should be an absolute. But that's not the reality of the situation.
ReplyDeleteThanks for a thoughtful post.
best, nadia
I certainly understand your concerns, Marianne. It only took me one or two pins to realize how easy it is to skip giving proper credit.
ReplyDeleteI use it in order to organize my inspirations. Right now I'm getting ready to start a new project, and I just pulled up all my pins to see what moved me today. I went to the original source to read up a bit, and now I'm off to start.
I think watermarking pictures is a great idea - now I just have to figure out how to do it . . .
All the best - Chris
i love pinterest. it allows me to save all the great things that inspire me in one place. My stuff is out there for all to see anyway so I don't mind the extra exposure.
ReplyDeleteSites like flickr do allow for better exchange but they are visited by like minded people (quilters, artists..). I think pinterst caters to a different audience. The more people see my stuff the better!
I do not understand what you mean with giving proper credit.
ReplyDeleteI'm new to this. But if I pin one of your quilts, from your website. Is this not enough? People have to click on the picture, and that brings them to your place.
I really want to do what is right.
Here is the problem that I personally ran into. I received permission to post work from a quilter on my blog. Those pictures were then pinned and repinned. Everything was then linked back to my blog but not the specific post where I put all the artists links and info. As things get pinned and repinned the original link is easily lost. Also Pinterest requests that we ask permissio before pinning, that is often not the case. Now for the scary part....Pinterest now claims to own these images. This is a problem.
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