December 24, 2005

PostSecret Book Arrived

Michael Arrington

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The PostSecret book that I ordered back in October arrived from Amazon.

I spent some time going through it last night and I really like it. PostSecret is one of the more interesting Web 2.0 companies (if you can call it a company). It certainly creates conversation, evokes emotion, and merges the online and offline worlds beautifully.

If you’d like to buy the book, it is available at Amazon.

And speaking of books, check out Om’s free “best of” ebook. Wow, great design by Arno Ghelfi.

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Ethan

December 24th, 2005 at 4:33 am

Come on now. Calling Post Secret a Web 2.0 company is disengenous to its purpose and its meaning. In fact I find it insulting. Just because it bridges the divide between public/private, and relies on an open data exchange does not a Web 2.0 company it make.

I’d call it Situationist 2.0, or maybe Mail Art 2.0.

Or how about drop the stupidity of versioning and just call it Mail Art with a Situationist International touch.

This is exactly the problem I have with the Web 2.0 meme, and why its dangerous to slap it on anything that remotely fills the purpose of bidirectionality. You’re taking a work of ART that is founded upon a long, long history of conceptual art practice and theory, and just because it makes interesting use of two very old technologies (Mail and e-mail), its Web 2.0.

Bad form Mike.
V.

December 24th, 2005 at 8:22 pm

I looked at their web site. So you send them a postcard, contributing for free some material which then they sell as a book, license to 3rd parties or show on exhibitions. However they do not allow you to watch other peoples material on their web site (gathered for free!) without paying for it price of a book or entry ticket.
Frederico Oliveira

December 25th, 2005 at 10:46 am

Heck, postsecret’s not a company or web 2.0, you silly postcard-loving american. Its an art project! Smack yourself in the face! Again! Again!
Scotto

January 9th, 2006 at 8:31 pm

well hey, i agree it ain’t a “web 2.0″ company, but i for one appreciate the stretch to try to include something so overtly artistic in the coverage on this site. it certainly affects people more than slapping some old short film into akimbo or google video is ever going to.
chelly belly

November 28th, 2006 at 3:18 pm

every night i secretly sneak into my neighbours pool and go skinny dipping
one night i fell in the pool and bumped my head the neighbours heard the noise and came out and i realised that it was my teachers family
……i wonder why i get good marks in physical ed now….