Exquisite Tweets from @flaneur, @McKelvie, @debcha

Ever tried, at a glance, to determine whether an arbitrary Tumblr is 100% reblogged/recycled or 100% original content? Yeah, that.

#1 10:43am Jun 21st 2011 via web

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@flaneur heh, read the post I made last night?

#2 10:44am Jun 21st 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to flaneur

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@McKelvie Solidarity, brother! #getoffallourlawnsyoukids

#3 10:48am Jun 21st 2011 via web in reply to McKelvie

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@McKelvie @flaneur The irony is that Tumblr has provenance-tracking baked in. Maybe that's why people are so cavalier about attribution.

#4 12:48pm Jun 21st 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to McKelvie

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@debcha @flaneur I think it's more that the ease of reblogging (which is in itself great) has encouraged people to think/care less about it.

#5 12:49pm Jun 21st 2011 via web in reply to debcha

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@debcha @flaneur I've had someone reblog me & in the time it's taken me to go to their page, they've reblogged five more images.

#6 12:50pm Jun 21st 2011 via web in reply to debcha

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@debcha @flaneur Which is to say, time and consideration is reduced in the process.

#7 12:50pm Jun 21st 2011 via web in reply to debcha

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@McKelvie @flaneur But straight reblogging has a clear provenance path + attribution tools (why I moved link curation there from my blog).

#8 1:47pm Jun 21st 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to McKelvie

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@McKelvie @flaneur Tumblr, like everywhere else, is creators:curators:consumers in a 1:10:100(0?) ratio. Diff is, you can SEE the consumers.

#9 1:47pm Jun 21st 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to McKelvie

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@McKelvie @flaneur Also, consumers likely see themselves as curators, rather than partaking of (literally) conspicuous consumption.

#10 1:47pm Jun 21st 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to McKelvie

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@debcha @McKelvie I have no problem with conspicuous consumption; I just wish you could SEE the creators too (more easily, or at all).

#11 1:52pm Jun 21st 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to debcha

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@debcha @McKelvie Especially since, as you mention, they have the data.

#12 1:52pm Jun 21st 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to debcha

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@stml @debcha @McKelvie That's it in a nut; Tumblr doesn't distinguish orig from reblogs when shown/interacted with, even though they could.

#14 2:08pm Jun 21st 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stml

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@flaneur @stml That's a neat point! Like maybe 'Reblog from source' button, so poor @McKelvie's lovely art doesn't get buried?

#15 2:11pm Jun 21st 2011 via web in reply to flaneur

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@debcha @flaneur @stml I should also point out I'm not just arguing on behalf of me, but of every artist I see this happen to.

#16 2:14pm Jun 21st 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to debcha

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@McKelvie @flaneur @stml Tumblr makes it easy to attribute well (in many ways, if not all); but it's also obvious when it's done badly.

#17 2:20pm Jun 21st 2011 via web in reply to McKelvie

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@debcha yeah it does - which makes it especially aggravating when people go out of their way to remove it or make it hard to find.

#18 2:21pm Jun 21st 2011 via web in reply to debcha

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@debcha I am in general a fan of the site. I love the way things can propagate and be shared.

#19 2:22pm Jun 21st 2011 via web in reply to debcha

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@debcha @McKelvie @stml Agree it's all a bit windmill-tilting at this point; user habits usually come from the infrastructure itself. Still.

#20 2:24pm Jun 21st 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to debcha

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