They had gone looking for a suitable quotation, and finding this one attributed to Angelou in all kinds of places online — quotation-aggregation sites, Pinterest boards, Facebook pages, Etsy ink prints — they had slapped it onto a postage stamp, forever.
Clearly aiming for scale, Quotables says it wants to become the "most authoritative online resource for quotations" – that's a direct quote – although its revenue model might not be quite so scalable (or ambitious).
Quotables, which soft launched in August, is aiming to become the destination for finding and sharing quotations online by embracing social media and crowdsourcing to organise its, largely, user generated database of quotes and to weed out misquotations and misattributions.
An article on Friday about a decision by Sallie Mae, the nation's largest private student-loan provider, to change its forbearance fee policy in response to an online petition, included a quotation by the petition's author, Stef Gray, that misstated one aspect of personal bankruptcy.
He discusses quotation matters online in The 'Quote … Unquote' Newsletter.
I can illustrate the power of online text collections for quotation research with a particularly dramatic example.
There are many websites online, providing you a quotation service.
QUOTE-UNQUOTE If you really love quotes, or what the punctilious call quotations, there's only one place to turn: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, available online (with the Bible, "Gray's Anatomy" and more) at bartleby.com.com
The website also featured quotations from online theme park reporters and Cedar Fair's CEO.
Mr. Romenesko was taken to the woodshed by Julie Moos, director of Poynter Online, for failing to put quotation marks around phrases he borrowed from articles he was aggregating for his blog.
