9 responses

• james Jan 16, 2008
   

  I found this article on this blog: http://andrewchen.typepad.com/​andrew_chens_blog/​2008/​01/​hot-​off-​the-​pre.html

   
• todd Jan 16, 2008
   

  This post is disturbing on so many levels. First of all, that people take scrapbooking so seriously, concerns me greatly. Ok, to be honest, that people scrapbook at all disturbs me greatly. That 'scrapbook' is a verb even disturbs me. But the fact that they have stars and then turn on them is

   
• todd Jan 16, 2008
   

  hilarious (for an activity that is so fundamentally commercial and mundane).

   
• james Jan 16, 2008
   

  I find it interesting the what used to be a hermit level activity, is now a social art form.

   
• james Jan 16, 2008
   

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• todd Jan 16, 2008
   

  The social aspect of it is actually quite interesting. I'm familiar with some tupperware-like features of scrapbooking (i.e.: go to the store, make stuff and buy a lot of expensive crap), but the online, competitive, community aspect is even cooler. and weirder.

   
• james Jan 16, 2008
   

  Yeah, I have noted a trend in non-social activities emerging as new social markets on the Internet.

   
• james Jan 16, 2008
   

  I predict ship-in-the-bottle making, and jug-blowing will be the hot trends of 2012.

   
• todd Jan 16, 2008
   

  heh. nice.