media checkin

Media check-in is a somewhat controversial concept that refers to a type of virtual check-in post, where the "location" is an item of consumable media such as a book, audio, video, or realtime media such as a radio or TV broadcast.

Criticism

Dilutes the meaning of checkin

checkins referred specifically to explicitly notifying your friends (sometimes followers) that you were at a physical location, typically a venue, as pioneered by Dodgeball and then Foursquare (and copied by Brightkite, Gowalla, Yelp, Facebook, and maybe others like Loopt).

The notion of a "media check-in" is completely artificial, has always felt like a forced concept / someting marketingy/brand-y/virtual to distract people from actual physical checkins. As such the use of the term "checkin" as referring to something virtual dilutes the meaning of the term.

Just a bookmark

Whether "checking into" a book, a page in a book, a movie, they are actually all just "bookmarks", especially in the example of "reading progress" mentioned above - which is a literal use of physical bookmarks.

There is no need for a different post type to express this concept.

IndieWeb Examples

gRegor Morrill

See my example on the read page.

Add yourself!

Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Past Examples

Tom Morris

Image link is dead as of 2025-05-01: Tom Morris: book checkin prototype

Silo Examples

Goodreads

Goodreads allows you to check-in your reading progress.

Dead services

GetGlue (later renamed tvtag) allowed you to check in to TV, films, music and other media. Example stream