Scopetech

Consider me “out of it” if you want, but I just don’t get Internet Masterpiece. From the site’s creator:

The site allows people to upload an image (gif or jpeg) onto a 9 by 6 grid reflecting whats happening now. All changes are recorded meaning that the image page can be viewed dating back until when the site was launched.

And that’s basically it.

The idea is interesting, we can have snapshots of current events to look upon in the past, but pictures only don’t seem like they’ll do the trick. It seems as though a lot of emphasis is being placed on user-driven content when it isn’t totally necessary. For one thing, users uploading pictures of things pertinent to them doesn’t do much. To put it bluntly: who cares? Do you care that I was drawing something in paint at a particular moment in time long gone? I don’t even think I would care what I was doing. Some changes the site could consider are going from content affecting users to content affecting the world - when people put up pictures of their puppy and things get too personal things may end up being uninteresting. Instead, allow users to submit things that anyone can relate to, Facebook, War in Iraq, and have some reasoning for the pictures being there so a person in the future could know what the picture is there for(this feature is already in there, just click on an image). Have a new version of the site published everyday after choosing what best represents the day and then the usefulness of the site may become more apparent. In its current form it seems like a pass. This reminds me of 10×10 which seems to be done much better.

If people really want to know what was going on in the past, couldn’t you just use the Way Back Machine to see how things were then and now?

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