rachelanastasia replied to your post: Stop curating, start creating.

My tumblr’s entire purpose (for me) is to curate, it’s my “scrapbook”. I personally don’t find it’s very good for posting my own work because it gets lost in a stream of other people’s stuff. clevernettle.com/rachabe… is for my own work.

I guess where I struggle with Tumblr (and the rest of the internet for that matter) is that over the past few years (since the advent of the social internet), the balance has shifted from creating to sharing. And that balance has tipped so much toward sharing that it’s become way tougher to find the people that create, which is way your stuff “gets lost in a stream of other people’s stuff”. The very prominent creators are featured, but a ton of other great creators are getting lost in the noise. I think Tumblr is (finally) realizing this as well, since they’re making some moves to better tackle content discovery.

1. rachelanastasia said: For “created” items, I follow individual blogs on RSS. Guess it depends on your def of “creating”. Personally I enjoy things like fan graphics, fashion sets, etc, which you might consider “sharing”. I use tumblr as a source for these.
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