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Tumblr has transformed into a brand-safe zombie of its former self

An interview with a Verizon suit makes it clear that Tumblr is a hollow shell of what it once was. What does this say for the experimentation the web once offered?

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censorship

Seriously, Starbucks? It's just Tumblr...

Content blocking at work in Starbucks. Time to fire up the personal hotspot from my iPhone…

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blog platforms

Media execs! Need help understanding Tumblr?

This should solve your problem…

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blog platforms

Tumblr axes its newsroom (yes, it had one)

This rather bland statement from Tumblr CEO David Karp hides something interesting: What we’ve accomplished with Storyboard has run its course for now, and our editorial team will be closing up shop and moving on. I want to personally thank them for their

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content strategy

Tumblr as a publishing tool for content creators

John Allison, who has a long history of excellent web comics behind him, on the role of Tumblr for content creators: I would never decry any service as worthless. There are people who have caught mass attention via Tumblr, and sold great piles of

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The FT fills Tumblr with 125 years of hot air

An e-mail arrived from the FT yesterday, telling me all about their 125th anniversary, and with some lovely photos to run – all of which I had no intention of doing until: My journalism MA students seemed to think the whole think was quite cool,

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apps

Going Native

Tumblr, on its iOS app store description: We’re so thrilled to tell you that our app is now completely native! Get ready for a faster, smoother, and more responsive Tumblr Dashboard. So, another major social app follows Facebook in abandoning an HTML wrapper

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aggregation

The Mighty Marvel Pinterest

Marvel Comics launches Pinterest and Tumblr accounts. A visual content publisher promotes itself on visual aggregation and sharing sites. Utterly simply, perfect match. I could do without the “begging for engagement” comments under every image, though: “What do you think of this blog post

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curation

#dConstruct - the architecture of serendipity and analogue Tumblr

A really fascinating talk by Frank Chimero about curating, organising and accessing all the digital “possessions” we’re accumulating, including Likes and things we favourite, and notes we make. The very different characteristics of digital and analogue material are certainly a fascinating topic. Analogue

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archiving

Should your blog content fade like tears in rain?

An interesting debate has popped up about the permanence (or lack of it) of the conversations happening in blogs. Gina Trapani kicked it off with a post about why she’s not following the neophile herd onto Tumblr as their main platform: In the

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facebook

Helping other people pimp your content

Ah, my poor little blog. I’ve been experimenting on it again. In the past couple of hours, I’ve added the new Tumblr share button and put some preparations in place to add the Facebook Send button, too. Now, there’s part of

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community

An Oatmeal gift for Tumblr

I love this kind of thing: Giant blogging platform Tumblr has decided to adopt cartoonist Matthew “The Oatmeal” Inman’s suggestion for a “fail whale” down-time graphic, the artist said in a Twitter message this afternoon. Inman posted the image of TumblBeasts taking over

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blogs

What Blogging Did Next

Interesting piece in The Economist: > People are not tiring of the chance to publish and communicate on the internet easily and at almost no cost. Experimentation has brought innovations, such as comment threads, and the ability to mix thoughts, pictures and links in a

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blog platforms

Tumblr Time for Publishers?

[![Image representing Tumblr as depicted in Crunc...]()](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tumblr)Image via [CrunchBase](http://www.crunchbase.com) I [wrote about Tumblr](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/07/the_social_media_grafting_process.html) a couple of weeks ago as part

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blog platforms

The Merger of Blogs and Social Networks

One of the “joys” of living in the social media world is those days that you wake up, and discover your e-mail in-box crammed with something – comments on one of your posts, Twitter follows or, as happened this morning, a metric ton of new