And speaking of the lady we know as the Fresco Ruiner: she's selling her own work on eBay now. Like this.
TECH This story popped up in my Zite feed for "Minneapolis," which always tosses out the oddest things. This is either your idea of an interesting interactive opportunity, or hell: Nibletz reports on a local photo-tagging social-network / floor polish / dessert topping app, Peerparazzi.
Maybe I'm just thick and old, but I don't get the point. There's a link to the angellist site where people put up ideas and wave their hands, hoping investors notice. The description:
Good luck to them; I'm sure there's an audience. Personally, I think: Why? For God's sake, why? Granted, I'm not the target market here, because I've never checked in to Foursquare for anything, although the service is useful for identifying people you want to unfollow on Twitter. Oh who's the mayor of the Lake Harriet Bandshell Ice Cream Stand? You are? What sort of Borgia-like political strife went on behind the scenes to elevate you to that lordly position? I use the most basic tags imaginable on my own Instagram photos, because I really don't care if they come up in a search for old rusty neon signs don't even tag my own computer files, because my own filing system is so obvious, clean, and logical, that I'm never more than four or five folder clicks away from what I need. Unless it's a pdf of the dog's rabies vaccination record from 2002. That stuff's on CDs in the basement. (Numbered, arranged chronologically on a spindle.)
But! If you want to add tags and help businesses and get ads and think that this increases your social celebrity status, to use a phrase that sums up everything annoying with contemporary culture, go ahead. This app had better include filters, though. Everything needs filters. Twitter just added filters to their own picture-posting features, lest any shot of a heart drawn in coffee foam NOT look like a faded Instamatic shot from 1973.