Artinimity使PostSecret更有特色(某种程度上来说)

【PostSecret是这样一个网站，人们在网站上使用匿名的方式进行告解，将自己的密码袒露出来，当然，由于是匿名，没有人知道是谁在告解，这在很大程度上满足了人们希望暴露自己的秘密，但又不想让别人知道自己是谁的问题。例如，登录今天的PostSecret，第二条告解是这样的：我真希望在一个舒服的房间里进行Oral Sex】

【到最后发现题目可能都翻译错了，Artinimity并不是PostSecret，而且Artinimity的东西也不在PostSecret上张贴，题目的意思应该是这样：“Artinimity是一个更加个性化的PostSecret”】

你有没有想过，如果在PostSecret网站上，人们的告解都是写在厕纸上的，那会是一个怎么样的情形？Yeah，我也没有这么变态的想法，不过谁知道呢？说不定有人就会有，这就是为什么昨天Artinimity上线，Artinimity是一个协作的图片博客“人们可以在如厕的时候在厕纸上写下自己的想法，并且发布到网站上。没错，所有的备注、告解、涂鸦都是写在厕纸上的。

我不会宣称自己能够理解这种做法，不过这帮家伙确实弄出了不少很吸引人眼球的东西。

借助PostSecret的平台，至少已经有四本书成功的面世了，例如，“纽约天空下”就是其中的一本（Overhead in NewYork），毫无疑问，Artinimity也希望通过这种方式取得成功，根据我的判断，在几百个挣扎的博客中，有一个能够脱颖而出并且取得成功就是挺不容易的事情了。不过我想，从他们第一天开始避免低级无聊的玩笑开始，他们就已经开始成功了。（妈的，翻译的乱七八糟，什么东西？看不明白）

Artinimity的作者是一个30岁的比利时博客和诗人，名字叫做Renaud，他已经通过自己的方式，以博客为基础，建立起了一个网络。他的另外一个作品是Damn Receipt（狗日的收据），（大概是将收据扫描然后放在网上，不会翻译了）

“我喜欢原创的、与众不同的、有力的（原文如此，英文中Powerfull应该是powerful，多了一个l）而且奇怪的想法来帮助网站提高知名度”，Renaud在自己的Damn Receipt网站上写到，而且Renaud最近创建的几个博客确实是挺怪异的。我不太确定像Artinimity这种网站是不是也会像PostSecret那样取得长期的成功，不过这种想法确实挺有意思，而且，值得关注。


原文：

Artinimity Makes PostSecret More Personal (Somehow)

from Read/WriteWeb by Josh Catone

Have you ever wondered what PostSecret would look like if all the confessions were written on toilet paper? Yeah, I never have either. But someone did, and that's why yesterday saw the launch of Artinimity, a collaborative photo blog "where people from all horizons express what they are thinking about... while sitting alone in a toilet." What that means is notes, confessions, and doodles scrawled on pieces of toilet paper.

I don't profess to understand this type of collaborative blog, but many of them are very creative and have struck a real nerve with people.

PostSecret, for example, has spawned no less than four books, while Overheard in New York has one (which is being updated this winter). There's no telling if Artinimity will enjoy that type of success -- I expect that for every wildly successful collaborative art blog there are hundreds that flounder -- but that they avoided any toilet humor on the first day is an accomplishment.

The creator of Artinimity is a 30 year old Belgian blogger/artist named Renaud who has been slowly building a nascent network of community blogs. One of those is Damn Receipt, a buzz marketing experiment in which consumers post photos of a receipt and advertisers refund the amount in return for getting the logo displayed on the blog. So far, it doesn't look like anyone has taken the bait, but the idea is interesting and with traffic, could work.

"I love creating original, totally bizarre, powerfull [sic] and strange methods to promote websites on the web," wrote Renaud about Damn Receipt. Most of the collaborative blogs Renaud has created over the past few weeks are a certainly a bit bizarre, and I'm not sure if Artinimity differs enough from PostSecret to be successful long term, but this sort of project is certainly interesting and worth keeping an eye on.

What are you favorite collaborative blogs? What do you think makes this sort of project so appealing to readers? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.