De Koopman

Deze advertentie op Marktplaats.nl doet me denken aan PostSecret, een weblog waar anonieme hartenkreten of kleine zielenroerselen even het web op borrelen om vervolgens met een oogwenk te worden weggeklikt. “Er komt een dag … dat ik lach“.

Vanochtend verscheen in de NY Times een verhaal over hoe schrijvers en dichters het online prikbord Craigslist gebruiken als proeftuin voor hun schrijfselen.

“(…) Across the country, aspiring writers are using Craigslist not just as a place to offload their futons, but as a pixeled writing workshop where they test their stabs at social satire on some of the more than 30 million visitors that the site draws each month. Their personal ads ostensibly seek a soul mate, but what they’re really looking for is an audience.

Some, like Ms. Gattinella, are working on a book, while others are just trying out material. Some find Internet fame when popular blogs link to the ads.

“One of the motives is they are trying to start something viral that takes off,” said Peggy Wang, an editor at Buzzfeed, a trend-tracking site that recently linked to several fake Craigslist ads. (…)”

Bron foto: Bo Teo (CC)

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