Web Directions

On (digital) gardens and wilderness

• In: Blog
• By:John
• October 24, 2008
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Nearly 3 years ago, after yet another rip off of our site design (I’ve lost count of the num­ber of times peo­ple have ripped our design, a lot of our con­tent (in one case sub­mit­ting it to a notable pub­lisher, and being only days away from being pub­lished as a book!)) we started a Flickr group called OMG Someone stole my web­site. It was kinda light hearted, as we’d long since learned that invest­ing much energy in wor­ry­ing about that sort of thing really is coun­ter­pro­duc­tive (unless it were a major com­pany, or so on).

And then promptly for­got about it.

Jump for­ward 3 years. Flickr’s front page redesign high­lights things like your groups. So I headed over to find 44 sites sub­mit­ted, and dozens of com­ments. OK, so it ain’t youtube, but it’s some­how grat­i­fy­ing to find some­thing emerge spon­ta­neously with no invest­ment of energy whatsoever.

Any sto­ries out there of untended gar­dens becom­ing flour­ish­ing wildernesses?

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