↩ Jacob's Ephemerata

The picture you just posted isnt yours. The person who originally posted it had almost 4K notes on it, and you're a dick who's trying to steal it.

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:23:00 +0000

They may (or may not) have been the first person to post it on Tumblr, but simply posting an item does not imply its ownership (territorial or otherwise) by the person who posted it. Anyone who [re]posts something [almost always] has a legal obligation to correctly attribute (identify) the original creator. In my own case, when I find an item that is attributed I may simply ‘reblog’ in the way you accuse me of failing to do, however if it is not attributed I post it afresh having correctly attributed the item myself. See my earlier post on this very subject.

More notably you presume that there is only one valid way to post stuff (reblog). If a newspaper ran the same picture would you accuse them of the same, or someone (heaven forbid) on Facebook? I may have wished to publish that item for my audience in some manner of my own and thus not have the original poster’s description (and thousands of ‘notes’ attached to it)…

Maybe in the case you cite (but I don’t know to which item you refer), the poster was indeed the creator, in which case my fresh post would nonetheless have attributed the creator (as required) and very likely provided several more links to their works. There are regrettably of course some cases where I am unable to identify an original author, not least because nobody else has been bothered to do anything other than click ‘reblog’ without considering who created it.

I won’t call you a dick, because your punctuation is ~99% accurate, and your concept of moral obligations and digital ownership is worth considering.

“When to take my name off the door”, a visualisation of Leo...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:15:49 +0000

“When to take my name off the door”, a visualisation of Leo Barnett’s 1967 speech on creative satisfaction (and making money); by Brazilian studio Lobo, via Co.Design.

‘Lichtreise’ A map visualisation using light painting (long...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:48:06 +0000

‘Lichtreise’ A map visualisation using light painting (long photographic exposure of moveable light sources), demonstrating that powerful visualisations of data need not been created digitally (although it has been enhanced digitally).

Photo

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:39:31 +0000

"when I see people complain about the process of getting free money or that the chairs in the offices..."

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:01:56 +0000

“when I see people complain about the process of getting free money or that the chairs in the offices are bad then I laugh, because I think they have no perspective of what it takes to build a business, how hard building a business is for majority of people”

- Today’s entrepreneurs are spoiled brats - amix.dk

"Entrepreneurship depends on a sense that the present order is an unreliable and cowardly indicator..."

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:59:25 +0000

“Entrepreneurship depends on a sense that the present order is an unreliable and cowardly indicator of the possible. The absence of certain practices and products is deemed by entrepreneurs to be neither right nor inevitable, merely evidence of conformity and lack of imagination.”

- Alain De Botton, The Steve Jobs MBA Unit 101: Don’t think about the present

‘Moon Dust’ by Spencer Finch.

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:15:25 +0000

‘Moon Dust’ by Spencer Finch.

‘an american in paris’ by Evan R. Campbell.

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:13:08 +0000

‘an american in paris’ by Evan R. Campbell.

Nothing is sacred. (by mobstr.)

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:56:37 +0000

Nothing is sacred. (by mobstr.)

The Independente Hostel & Suites Lisboa

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:10:04 +0000

The Independente Hostel & Suites Lisboa

‘Dencity’ a visualisation of worldwide population density....

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:34:25 +0000

‘Dencity’ a visualisation of worldwide population density. 36” print available for $30.

The Dos And Don’ts Of Food Snobbery

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:43:34 +0000

The Dos And Don’ts Of Food Snobbery:

«NEVER correct pronunciations unless it’s absolutely necessary. If Italians can get away with dropping vowels, you can let your friends pick them up. “Moozarell” and “Mozzarella” mean the same thing to waiters. I promise.»

“Neon” by Nadine Schönfeld Photography.

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:14:19 +0000

“Neon” by Nadine Schönfeld Photography.

"Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in..."

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:02:17 +0000

“Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently. And it’s that process that is the magic.”

- Steve Jobs, in a 1995 interview; via Daring Fireball.

"Nature restores human nature, yet human nature underestimates the value of nature. This tendency..."

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:28:53 +0000

“Nature restores human nature, yet human nature underestimates the value of nature. This tendency precludes our ability to take advantage of nature’s restorative power while leading to nature’s destruction.”

- via ‘The Paradox of Nature and Human Nature?’ on 77Zero.; citing from “Underestimating Nearby Nature: Affective Forecasting Errors Obscure the Happy Path to Sustainability. The Paradox of Nature and Human Nature?” by Nisbet, E. K., & Zelenski.

232 sand dollars | Derek Sivers

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:14:59 +0000

232 sand dollars | Derek Sivers:

«The excitement was in finding them, not keeping them.»

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Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:07:44 +0000

The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:27:20 +0000

The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com:

we’re all in showbiz now, walking on eggshells, relentlessly tending our customer base […] Call it Generation Sell. […] just [keep] doing what you [are] doing, at gradually higher price points

The Holstee Manifesto: Lifecycle

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:30:52 +0000

The Holstee Manifesto: Lifecycle

Interview with a Stoic: William O. Stephens - Boing Boing

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:04:05 +0000

Interview with a Stoic: William O. Stephens - Boing Boing:

Stoics believe it is reasonable to respond to every event virtuously, to do the very best you can under the circumstances, and accept the rest. A Stoic focuses on what is up to her and doesn’t worry about anything that is not up to her. […] Health, sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, ignominy, life, death, and all such things are neither good nor bad in themselves, because each can be used well and virtuously or badly and wickedly. How we deal with these things which are indifferent to happiness determines our happiness or misery. Our happiness, therefore, is up to us, it is not up to luck, according to the Stoics.