An Abandoned Church

More images from the trip can be found on flickr:

Seeing the popularity of Pinterest (or my curiosity-induced lack of interest of Pinterest), I thought I’d write a blog entry that explores the social media networking site. I requested to join and received an email that said:

Thanks for joining the Pinterest waiting list. We’ll be sure to send you an invite soon.In the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter. You can also explore a few pins. We’re excited to get you pinning soon! – Ben and the Pinterest Team

Not having an account, to talk about Pinterest I first had to do some research. I checked out how one blog, Downtown Traveler (a trendy travel and art blog with 2K Twitter followers) is using Pinterest. (Note: From now on I am using the name “Pintz” to refer to Pinterest – it’s much shorter and easier to type. Furthermore, I don’t like the word Pinterest.)

After a one minute analysis, the concept seems pretty simple. Using Pintz, you can create a category–called a “board” (as in bulletin board). You can name that board whatever you like, for instance, “Visiting NYC.” On that board you can post “pins”–images that have captions underneath them. The captions may contain a link to the original source of the image.

Since I don’t have an account and will have to wait until I’m accepted, I am going to share some of the things on this blog that I would consider putting up on Pinterest (err, I mean, PINTZ.)

The following blocks represent “pins.” Since I am not using Pintz but want to get a similar visual feeling, I have created boxes in HTML for each of my content items.

Board Name: “Crazy Classes I want to Take”

Storm the Page: Free Writing Happy Hour with Sabrina Crawford (4/18 – 5/9)

Board Name: “Volunteer Opps I want”

826 Valencia Straight-up News is fresh off the press

Okay, I did this draft pretty fast…and it’s a little unattractive…but it seems to capture the general idea behind the Pinterest website. Since this blog is made using WordPress, I think I could actually create a mini-site similar to Pintz by using aditional plugins to incorporate more aspects of social networking for each of the “pins” I created.

UPDATE: 4/11: I got my Pinterest account. Phew.  It took a day–I was a complete nervous wreck. Well, not really. My account is pinterest.com/projectdominion (I have also decided that “Pin Up”  would be a cuter name than “Pinterest”)

The following video depicts Chewie, who looks and acts like a miniature version of Lassie, sneezing on command. Sneezing is one of the many things she does for attention in addition to whining and walking on her hind legs. She’s not my dog but her owners (my friends) really missed out on making money on her wide range of talents.