Posts Tagged ‘post secret’
On Anonymity, Collecting, and Connecting
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 16, 2009
A great video by a student in one of Mike Wesch’s Digital Ethnography classes at Kansas State University featuring: Found, Post Secret, Fmylife, Facebook, Twitter, and Mortified and commenting on: collecting, archiving, and soul-searching; anonymity, treasured objects, networks, and scrap writing, of course.
Submitting
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 19, 2009
A person submits a scrap to a scrap writing website through either email or regular mail. These options indicate that scrap writing in the digital age operates through networks both old and new. The US Postal Service sustains what is probably the most successful scrap writing website, Post Secret, because all submissions must be mailed [...]
Thinking
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 19, 2009
In what follows, I’d like to make some preliminary attempts at synthesizing some of the material on this blog. This is tough. While working on this project, I’ve come across tons of interesting stuff, but I often wonder what it all means. First, some comments on form: blog + “archive” Working on a blog rather [...]
Scrap Writing in the Twitter Age
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 12, 2009
An interesting development for scrap writing in the digital age: PostSecret is on Twitter and unsurprisingly, has many followers (65,014 to be exact). This morning PostSecret re-tweeted this question from a follower: “The comic book one at the bottom… What’s on the other side?” The question refers to the last scrap secret posted on PostSecret [...]
Progress Report #3 (Beta)
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 4, 2009
I’m mixing things up a bit today. I’m thinking thinking thinking about this project and just want to get some ideas out there without getting too formal and specific. So here’s some jumbled thoughts on my mind and in my notebook lately. Blogging an academic project is new and weird and messy and uncomfortable. It’s [...]
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