Friday, September 17, 2010
Yellow Arrows & enjoysthin.gs
In his intro, Jenkins briefly talks about Yellow Arrows, and the idea caught my interest. It reminded me of websites like enjoysthin.gs where people can bookmark discoveries and things they like online. Instead of searching the world of the web, people are exploring the Earth and placing yellow arrow stickers on objects pointing toward things they like. I think it is interesting to look at how we do things online compared to how we do things out in the world and how the two are meshing together.
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To all: Other than the simple and satisfying curiosity gratification that most social media provides (we all love sharing moments in our daily lives, places we love, ideas we admire) what is the gain for the recipient? Is it only an intellectual gratification? How truly interested are we? Is the expression of self the key, or is knowledge of what our peers enjoy most important?
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Dang that "critical approaches" stuff...
I find that the Yellow Arrows initiative is, in actuality, meshing the digital and the non-digital world together, but I also believe that sites such as digg or the one you have mentioned are still more prevalent in the worlds of those who are more involved in the ever evolving digital world than the average citizen. I think that the basic search engines are still where the majority of people are going to be directed, and those who are familiar and comfortable with the online world are the ones going to the other sites. The same could potentially be said about the Yellow Arrows, but in my opinion, the yellow arrows are doing a better job on integrating everyone into the digital world, where as the websites are still focusing on the digitally inclined group.
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