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Metaphor Repository

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  • Created: Jul 12, 2006, 12:22 pm
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The Idea

Create a website where metaphors can be submitted by the public. It will be something similar to http://www.istockphoto.com but for metaphors. The format of the submission could be only text, text and a picture, text and a drawing or an animation. The idea is to collect elements of communication that create instantaneous understanding of complex matters. The business model could be similar to Istockphoto.

I thought of this idea when I was...

Inspiration: Dan Pink book A whole New Mind. On Page 50 he wrote: If a picture is worth a thousand words, a metaphor is worth a thousand pictures. Metaphor is understanding one thing in terms of something else. Metaphor is the Lifeblood of all art: Twyla Tharp page 135, same book. Metaphorical Imagination is essential in forging empathic connections and communicating experiences that others do not share. Page 136 same book.


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Balaji_Sowmyanarayanan
Balaji_Sowmyanarayanan Posted: July 16, 2006, 10:06 pm

Indeed a metaphor is worth a thousand picture.

alystair
alystair Posted: July 31, 2006, 2:44 am

Could be used in the voting style of qdb/bash.org where people can simply submit them, and then it gets keywords based on the words used so if I wanted to use a metaphor with fish... it would come up there.

 

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