This digital age requires us to be specific. We need to identify things so we can find things. We can not just leave things alone and expect that they will be discovered.
I get frustrated when I find a good website or article and I am limited on how I can share it. One of the reasons I like Pinterest so much is that it is so easy to use and share. Yet many sites and articles don’t include “pinable” images that drive the viewer back to the page itself, so you can pin them, or if you can, it is not an automatic link. Heck, I know that I am guilty of such slack; I rarely include images on my posts, which makes them difficult to share. And even when I do, I forget to put in a custom URL so that it drives the Pinterest viewer back to the post.
Yet, I am grateful for this slack of mine, for it exposes a bigger problem that we all face. The same problem — I mean, opportunity — is no doubt true for all the passion industries and cultural verticals. If we want to share, if we want others to share, what is unique and wonderful and inspiring, we need to identify it as what it is. Film images have to be called film images. Food images must be identified as food images. Fashion, fashion. Music, music. And so on and so on and so on.
Why? Because then others can build on the back of that. Although it should be right around the corner, we don’t yet have the tools to collect all the film images for the films we want to see. But if we did, every time you read about a film you wanted to see, you could “pin” it, or “flick” it, and there it would be: on your queue. EZ-PZ.
I am not a coder by any means, but it seems to me all that would need to be done is put an identifier in the description of the image in HTML and it would be a done deal. Maybe this has already been done, and I and the rest of the community just does not know it yet.
Any way, if you like this idea, I have many more, and would love to work somehow to get them done. We can build it better together.
