The Most Pinteresting People in the World

People on Pinterest feel like they are alone for some reason. I argue that this is good for creativity in a paper here: http://ecologylab.net/research/publications/everyday_ideatio... http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2557273

The longer I'm inside my own head, the further I'm allowed to stretch my thoughts. When you're always bouncing back and forth between people for validation, every criticism to what you say is like an axe hacking off an original piece of the idea.

Where is the originality for people who just pin stuff from other people?

They're curators.. or just using Pinterest as a bookmark (I mostly use facebook, twitter, tumblr the same way).

Curation is as important as creation. What do you think HN does? Or YCombinator? Or any important magazine or newspaper?

They curate things. They are taste filters. There's a hell of a lot of stuff on the internet and it's useful to know which things are actually interesting.

Read the title as "The most interesting pineapple in the world"

Probably because pintresting never sounded like a real word to me.