Pinterest Vs The Design Blogs
I have always been a huge reader of design blogs. I love to know how people came up with the idea, what the problems were with the space, and how they accomplished it on a real budget. I feel the need to constantly rearrange my furniture, which brings with it the need to arrange my artwork, accessories, and everything else I can think to move. I log in to my reader each night with 300+ new blog posts to read. A lot of them I skim through, as I follow for one type of their blog posts, not all. The fashion ones I can skim as well. I mark unread a few that I know I want to read during the day and devour the comedic dialog.
Lately I keep hearing everyone say that they are too busy checking out pinterest to read blogs. A few people have been bold enough to say that Pinterest is killing design blogs. But the content has to come from somewhere, right?
I admit, there are a few times I have scanned through design blogs that I read and itALL blurs into one, then moments later I see the pictures on Pinterest and I think, OH Thats a good idea! There is something about being distracted about the words, that leads to the brilliance of the simplicity of Pinterest.
I wonder what your opinions are. Do you read blogs? Do you check out pinterest? Do you actually use the things that inspire you to pin?
I am not huge on pinterest; it is actually the last place I check when I am looking for ideas
I’m still more of a blog reader, although I do scan Pinterest from time to time. When I do, the link always take me to the original (at least I hope it’s the original..lol) post, which I can then read and learn more about whatever it was that caught my eye on Pinterest.
I think pinterest is a wonderful SM tool for bloggers to use, and you are right, it does up the ante!
Blogs are great for how to;s and tutorials, feelings, stories etc. Pinterest, is purely inspiration for me
I’ve gotta admit… I’m a Pinterest addict! I agree with you, though, it won’t kill design blogs, just make them up their ante. And, you are spot on when you say that it’s annoying when a pin goes to a blog post *about* another blog post. To me, that’s a big cheat – you’re getting traffic to your blog off the back of (and without the consent of) the originating blog. But that’s just me; I would prefer one click and the pin being an honest pin, not the pin of a post of a post. 🙂