+Diana Kimball writes about bookmaking apps and the wish economy. One of my favorite excerpts:
[Pinterest is] “a repository of things that people would like to have or do,” he continued, Pinterest constitutes “a database of intentions.”
...The Bookmark represents what we wish for. It’s the earliest indicator of intention, and the most vulnerable; by definition, the act of saving something for later means that whatever we hope for hasn’t happened yet. Bookmarks are placeholders for the future. By thumbing through them, we can start to see what might happen next.
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