Content blocking at work in Starbucks. Time to fire up the personal hotspot from my iPhone……
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A collection of 18 posts
Media execs! Need help understanding Tumblr?
This should solve your problem……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
#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…