phoebedoris:

I don’t use Pinterest. I will even admit to having mocked it when I first learned about the service. But, Internet, we need to lay off the service. It’s not Tumblr. It’s not Delicious (or, my preferred, Pinboard). It’s a visual bookmarking service that values content that can be presented via the…

I was dismissive of Pinterest because of how I saw people using it. Then I saw how other people were using it, like Scott Kleinberg’s awesome board of interesting Kit-Kat flavors, and it hit me that it could be utilized by reporters or media outlets.

(By the way, I find more specials on FourSquare for places in Iowa and Milwaukee than I do in Chicago. Maybe I’m checking in at the wrong places.)