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Pinterest Vs The Design Blogs – Moody Monday

January 21, 2013 By Brooke 5 Comments

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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.

* The content on Pinterest is from design blogs
* This makes blogs have to spend more time on making cute buttons and title pictures than the actual projects.
* I often will click on a Pin which leads me to a post telling me about something they found on pinterest.
This bugs me.  Pin the original content.  Its just nice.
* The pressure to have not only the best projects but also the best media is upping the ante on blogs.
* Pinterest is great for driving traffic to your blog.
So, NO I do not think pinterest will kill design blogs, but I think it will put pressure on everyone to be better and do more. Which will in turn kill some design blogs.
I think that the casual blog reader will no longer be loyal to so many blogs.  They will become more selective of the blogs that they read multiple times a week.  Save those for the more content based posts, and pick up the highlights and best of’s for projects, home ideas, and tips for kids on 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?

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  1. mamawee says

    January 22, 2013 at 12:24 am

    I am not huge on pinterest; it is actually the last place I check when I am looking for ideas

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  2. Monica says

    January 22, 2013 at 1:08 pm

    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.

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  3. Elizabeth FrugalMomEh says

    January 22, 2013 at 1:26 pm

    I think pinterest is a wonderful SM tool for bloggers to use, and you are right, it does up the ante!

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  4. Gingermommy says

    January 22, 2013 at 12:42 pm

    Blogs are great for how to;s and tutorials, feelings, stories etc. Pinterest, is purely inspiration for me

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  5. Fab Frugal Mama says

    January 22, 2013 at 1:14 pm

    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. 🙂

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