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By briantologist | February 5, 2010
So a friend at work let me know about Momentile some time ago, back when it was in its beta phase, and I really liked it immediately. Rather than do lots of extensive typing and thinking, I will now lazily blockquote their About page.
A momentile consists of a single image, defined only by the date it was published. That’s it. Void of explanation and free from context, a momentile is pure visual communication. There’s something special about observing an interesting moment from a complete stranger, without any message other than the one you interpret yourself. This is, at its very core, the reason we created momentile.
To interact with others by observing the interesting, obscure, and mundane moments of everyday life.
I am, of course, really into the mundane, and the open secret of beautiful moments we encounter as we shuffle around doing whatever the hell it is we’re doing around here, so the whole thing seems kind of tailor-made for me. It also doesn’t hurt that they’ve got a sweet iPhone/iPod Touch app that makes it incredibly easy to keep up with the whole picture-a-day process.
That’s the other thing I like about it: It’s very much in keeping with some recent ideas I’ve had about not being so comfortable with letting my life slip into a muddle of undistinguished days. That, and the whole idea of doing something or making something every day is kind of nice, even if it’s just a bunch of goddamn pixels that whoever’s in charge of the Internet could accidentally erase.
So yes, I think you should sign up and get your Momentile on. It’s free, there’s little to no advertising, and it’s refreshingly free of social networking-type horse shit. These people had a great idea, and I support them unsolicited, and I think you should too.
Oh, and P.S. — As you’ll note in the right sidebar, there’s totally a Momentile plug-in/widget for WordPress! The hits just keep on coming, I tell you.
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