Evan's Suggestions

Ok, so as a general disclaimer I'd like to be the first to note that all of the sources I looked up to suggest are web sources. I noticed that a lot of people were very exclusively focusing on academic search tools, so I went out looking for some sources that were really unique to the web and that would not appear in a more academic context. Because the nature of the web is such that it often acts as an intermediary between consumer and producer rather than producer and what is produced, these sources are not clearly as steeped in the social relations of production as other sources one might find, but I nevertheless feel that they illuminate this topic in iteresting ways. So here goes:

@My Rubber Stamp Museum: this is a link to a software download for a piece of software that promises to be able to keep track of the stamps that a collector owns so that the collector can more effectively collect. I found it interesting that the production of stamps as collectors items kind of exclusively sustains the production of non-stamp, stamp-collecting paraphernalia.

"Stamp Collector." Tech Republic. 2008. Beaver Valley Software. 6 Oct 2008 .

@My Condom Museum: this is a discussion forum in which people are discussing condom use in the fantasy videogame fable 2. I thought it could provide interesting insight into condoms as purely social objects that do not have to be produced, created, distributed, etc, and might throw some of that process of production into relief in terms of what influence it has over the social reality of the finished product condom.

"General Discussion Forum." Giant Bomb. 2008. Giant Bomb. 6 Oct 2008 .

@My Vinyl Museum: this is from an amazon discussion forum of music afficionados discussing vinyls. I found it interesting that what is presumably a major agent of the distribution and large influence on the production of vinyls was supporting a medium for discussion of the product that was not explicitly commercial and what that meant in terms of the social reality of the object and on what terms the sale and production of it could be considered.

"Vinyl Forum." Amazon.com. 2008. Amazon. 6 Oct 2008 .

@My Nail Polish Museum: this is a link to a make-up company's site where they are "selling" their product by doing nothing other than providing a collection of clips from various news etc agencies that discussed their product. It was an interesting formulation I thought in terms of contemplating what went into the production of the product's image in the process of sale.

"The Buzz." Eyes Lips Face. 2008. JA Cosmetics Corp. 6 Oct 2008 .