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March 30, 2011

“The Web works best when it’s spontaneous, creative, irreverent and slightly anarchic”.

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[Don’t get me started…]

You may have already noti­ced, I’ve been doing a lot of rapid-fire car­toon pos­tings lately.

It goes to a point that came up when I was recently tal­king to Doc Searls on the phone…

“The Web works best when it’s spon­ta­neous, crea­tive, irre­ve­rent and slightly anarchic”.

With that in mind, I deci­ded to do something about it. The Web had been fee­ling kinda stuffy of late…

So when I draw a wee business-card car­toon, at Starbuck’s or wha­te­ver, I simply take a snapshot of it then and there on my iPhone, then ins­tantly post it on the web via Ins­ta­gram… which auto­ma­ti­cally feeds onto Twit­ter, this Word­Press blog, Face­book and my Pos­te­rous page.

Sim­ple, fast and fun.

Art is more inte­res­ting when it’s libe­ra­ted from its own self.

Not unlike human beings…

Spon­ta­neous. Crea­tive. Irre­ve­rent. Slightly anarchic.

Exactly.

Tags: creative, Doc Searls, Hugh's Cartoons, Instagram, Rapid-Fire Cartoon posting, Spontaneous

9 Responses to ““The Web works best when it’s spontaneous, creative, irreverent and slightly anarchic”.”

1. Matt says:

   March 30, 2011 at 12:27 PM

   Hey, I’m star­ting a blog and I really like your pic­ture.. can I use it?

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   • Hugh MacLeod says:

     March 30, 2011 at 2:13 PM

     I guess so…

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2. Tanner Christensen says:

   March 30, 2011 at 3:30 PM

   And just like that you ins­pire an entire world, again. Though I have to say that the recent flood of art is great on Twit­ter, but really over­loads my RSS reader.

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   • Hugh MacLeod says:

     March 31, 2011 at 10:32 AM

     Hey Tan­ner,

     Hmmmm.… those pesky RSS rea­ders. There’s a rea­son why they never really went mains­tream

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3. Mac says:

   March 30, 2011 at 4:22 PM

   Spea­king as a stuffy human… I pre­fer it when the inter­web is full of stuff.

   That is, use­ful stuff. Stuff i can use.

   Vote up ‘stuff’. Vote down ‘stuffed’.

   Mac.

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4. Ken Montville says:

   March 30, 2011 at 7:38 PM

   I’ve noti­ced the inc­rea­sed out­put. Although I’ve just recently subsc­ri­bed so I don’t know enough of the past to know whether it’s a lot or not.

   Some of the stuff is pretty good…and though pro­vo­king. And I’ve just star­ted pla­ying with Ins­ta­gram, too, and it seems like a pretty neat “social object”.

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5. Jon says:

   March 31, 2011 at 2:10 AM

   It’s great that you can use ins­ta­gram to do that, but I don’t see how you get it to auto feed Word­Press. I don’t see Word­Press as a sha­ring option on Instagram?

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   • Hugh MacLeod says:

     March 31, 2011 at 10:31 AM

     Jon,

     Actually, it goes from Pos­te­rous to Word­Press directly, not from Ins­ta­gram to Word­Press i.e. Indirectly.

     The other thing to con­si­der is, Ins­ta­gram is currently get­ting most of the traf­fic. I’m not really sure how happy I am about that. Then again, traf­fic isn’t the be-all and end-all.

     But this is what hap­pens when you try to tether all the Inter­net bits and bobs together. It gets messy fast

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     • Jon says:

       April 1, 2011 at 4:10 AM

       Thanks Hugh. I’m only an ama­teur blog­ger, mostly I use it as a link snip­pet repo­si­tory for artic­les I need to find and refe­rence later on or send to others. (I read so others don’t have to for a living So, I never thought of the traf­fic impli­ca­tions and I can go for simplest.

       I do want to start blog­ging some pho­tos though, but I don’t use Pos­te­rous, so I have a mis­sing link pro­blem. I guess I could set up like you do because I like the Instagram/workflow ease of use.

       Jon

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