http://www.pinterest.com/alex1sh0pe/what-the-world-ate-for-breakfast/
I wanted to do a story on what the world eats for breakfast, pieced together by posts from popular social networking tools in various countries. However, many social networks required in-country mobile phone numbers to join (e.g. Mixi in Japan), or had strict privacy settings to interact with other users (e.g. Line) and so I could not pull content from them.
My process involved finding a colloquial term for breakfast in the language of a variety of locations, and then trying to find a geo-tagged post with a picture of breakfast that I thought might be interesting, surprising, or just tasty looking. I was able to retrieve photos from Weibo, Instagram, Twitter, and Google Plus. I tried to find breakfast photos that looked more-or-less home-cooked, as opposed to photos from restaurants.
Once I found the photos, I put them on a Pinterest map. Take a tour of breakfast!
Fun facts:
Breakfast in German = Frühstück
Portuguese = “pequeno-almoço”
Russian = “завтрак”
Japanese = “朝食”
Turkish = “kahvaltı”
Alexis – this is WONDERFUL. I love the title of the piece and the way that you brought disparate everyday posts together into a global story. I also mainly am excited because breakfast is my favorite meal of the day without which everything else completely falls apart. I’d be curious as to your process for locating the breakfast posts and for locating the right social media sites to check for each country.
This is super fun! And a great display of how to use of Pinterest for public curation. I wish there was also a temporal aspect to it so that I could walk through breakfast as the day proceeds from East to West.