“[In the Asia Pacific Region] Tumblr is outstripping Facebook in terms of bandwidth used in the corporate environment. [Palo Alto Networks marketing manager Brian Tokuyoshi] admitted that this could be the effect of Tumblr being more media intensive, with most Tumblr posts consisting of one or more images. However, he said that this traffic is on the increase more so in Australia than in other parts of the world. “Tumblr has taken a considerable amount of bandwidth inside businesses inside Australia and New Zealand, and the rest of the world is catching up.”

What apps hide in corporate networks? - ZDNet Australia
High-res ginag: RSVP! teocracy: Uma das coisas mais interessantes que eu descobri com a equipe do Tumblr foi que Curitiba tem uma das comunidades mais engajadas e participativas do mundo! Quanto você quer saber? Que tal quebrar o recorde mundial de usuários reunidos? Ano passado o encontro levou mais de 500 RSVPs e já entrou pra nossa história - aí eles nos deixaram com vontade e agora resolvemos voltar com tudo! Estamos preparando um novo super encontro em Curitiba com a equipe Internacional do Tumblr no Museu Oscar Niemeyer, pra quem quiser bater um papo e encontrar os amigos do dashboard . E se só isso não é legal o suficiente, teremos algodão doce,  pipoca e maçã do amor, porque agora o coração do Tumblr também é brasileiro. Então, se você esta em Curitiba, tem um Tumblr e vai estar de bobeira dia 20 de Maio, esta mais do que convidado pra passar a tarde cheia de surpresas com a gente. E não esquece de avisar pra todo mundo, queremos esse Recorde Mundial para Curitiba. Quem topa? O link de confirmação de presença já ta no ar!  I can’t tell you how sorry I am to be missing this.  But you should definitely go.

ginag:

RSVP! teocracy:

Uma das coisas mais interessantes que eu descobri com a equipe do Tumblr foi que Curitiba tem uma das comunidades mais engajadas e participativas do mundo! Quanto você quer saber? Que tal quebrar o recorde mundial de usuários reunidos? Ano passado o encontro levou mais de 500 RSVPs e já entrou pra nossa história - aí eles nos deixaram com vontade e agora resolvemos voltar com tudo!

Estamos preparando um novo super encontro em Curitiba com a equipe Internacional do Tumblr no Museu Oscar Niemeyer, pra quem quiser bater um papo e encontrar os amigos do dashboard . E se só isso não é legal o suficiente, teremos algodão doce,  pipoca e maçã do amor, porque agora o coração do Tumblr também é brasileiro.

Então, se você esta em Curitiba, tem um Tumblr e vai estar de bobeira dia 20 de Maio, esta mais do que convidado pra passar a tarde cheia de surpresas com a gente. E não esquece de avisar pra todo mundo, queremos esse Recorde Mundial para Curitiba.

Quem topa? O link de confirmação de presença já ta no ar! 

I can’t tell you how sorry I am to be missing this. 

But you should definitely go.

High-res nycedc: NYC’s Burger Economy May is national hamburger month, and there is no shortage of places to celebrate in a city where everyone has an opinion about the best burger in town. Like pizza, everyone has their favorite, but rather than weigh in on which one is the best, we are going to stick to looking at the numbers. Using the latest NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene restaurant inspection data, we analyzed the 627 burger joints in the City to see how they break down into chain and independent restaurants. The findings were not too surprising: the big three chains (McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s) account for the majority (60%) of all burger places in the city. Another 26% are smaller chains like White Castle and Five Guys, and the remaining 14% are places with only a single location in the City. If you voted in this week’s poll on NYCEDC.com to weigh in on which borough you thought had the most burger joints, let’s see how you stack up: The number and mix varies by area. With 216, Manhattan has the most of any borough. While it is not the most populous borough, its economy caters to the daytime population which includes workers and tourists. Manhattan also has the smallest share of big three burger joints (46%) and the largest share of those with a single location (22%). When taking the resident population into account, Queens leads the way with 9.6 burger places per 100,000 residents. Manhattan has 8.6, the Bronx has 6.8, and Staten Island has 6.4. Brooklyn has the fewest with 6 burger places per 100,000 residents. In other words, regardless of where you are in the City, there’s enough to go around. Types of Burger Joints by Borough Source: NYC DOHMH StatsBee is a column featuring interesting statistics about NYC, written by economists at the Economic Research & Analysis department within NYCEDC’s Center for Economic Transformation. Top photo: Shake Shack, Upper West Side via Flickr.com/roboppy The more you know. 

nycedc:

NYC’s Burger Economy

May is national hamburger month, and there is no shortage of places to celebrate in a city where everyone has an opinion about the best burger in town. Like pizza, everyone has their favorite, but rather than weigh in on which one is the best, we are going to stick to looking at the numbers.

Using the latest NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene restaurant inspection data, we analyzed the 627 burger joints in the City to see how they break down into chain and independent restaurants. The findings were not too surprising: the big three chains (McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s) account for the majority (60%) of all burger places in the city. Another 26% are smaller chains like White Castle and Five Guys, and the remaining 14% are places with only a single location in the City.

If you voted in this week’s poll on NYCEDC.com to weigh in on which borough you thought had the most burger joints, let’s see how you stack up:

The number and mix varies by area. With 216, Manhattan has the most of any borough. While it is not the most populous borough, its economy caters to the daytime population which includes workers and tourists. Manhattan also has the smallest share of big three burger joints (46%) and the largest share of those with a single location (22%).

When taking the resident population into account, Queens leads the way with 9.6 burger places per 100,000 residents. Manhattan has 8.6, the Bronx has 6.8, and Staten Island has 6.4. Brooklyn has the fewest with 6 burger places per 100,000 residents. In other words, regardless of where you are in the City, there’s enough to go around.

Types of Burger Joints by Borough

Source: NYC DOHMH

StatsBee is a column featuring interesting statistics about NYC, written by economists at the Economic Research & Analysis department within NYCEDC’s Center for Economic Transformation. Top photo: Shake Shack, Upper West Side via Flickr.com/roboppy

The more you know. 

rachelfershleiser: Soon after, the blog and Kickstarter campaign caught the attention of Tumblr outreach specialist Rachel Fershleiser. Fershleiser had worked for a bookstore in New York for six years before joining the blogging site and dreamed of starting just the kind of place McSwain had in mind. She began to correspond with McSwain, and when she knew she would be in Chicago for the Association of Writers and Writers’ Programs conference in early March, she hit him up about doing a Tumblr promotion at the shop. On March 2, more than 100 Tumblr writers turned out at the tiny, still-unfinished bookstore at 2630 N. Milwaukee Ave. for the Tumblr writers’ meetup. McSwain sat humbled behind his desk, watching people squeeze against his bookshelves to make their way through the crowd and ringing up sales of his last copies of The Chicagoan. He watched his dream of an independent used bookstore—launched in a sketchy economy and unwanted by banks—make a splash of a debut with the power of a web-based financing site, Twitter and Tumblr. (via Uncharted Territory | LoganSquarist) Rachel is a Kingmaker. 

rachelfershleiser:

Soon after, the blog and Kickstarter campaign caught the attention of Tumblr outreach specialist Rachel Fershleiser. Fershleiser had worked for a bookstore in New York for six years before joining the blogging site and dreamed of starting just the kind of place McSwain had in mind. She began to correspond with McSwain, and when she knew she would be in Chicago for the Association of Writers and Writers’ Programs conference in early March, she hit him up about doing a Tumblr promotion at the shop.

On March 2, more than 100 Tumblr writers turned out at the tiny, still-unfinished bookstore at 2630 N. Milwaukee Ave. for the Tumblr writers’ meetup. McSwain sat humbled behind his desk, watching people squeeze against his bookshelves to make their way through the crowd and ringing up sales of his last copies of The Chicagoan. He watched his dream of an independent used bookstore—launched in a sketchy economy and unwanted by banks—make a splash of a debut with the power of a web-based financing site, Twitter and Tumblr.

(via Uncharted Territory | LoganSquarist)

Rachel is a Kingmaker. 

“Most of you know I’d rather post photos of my family and write about Alaska than talk about politics. But after reading and watching some recent commentary, I can’t help myself.
The chattering class is talking – endlessly – about Mitt Romney’s choice of a Vice Presidential running mate. Will he choose a Governor? A Senator? A Congressman? There are many good options for Governor Romney – and all of them have already been dissected in the media – with a list of pros and cons beside their names. One is too “northern,” another is too “boring,” another is too “white.” I’ve lived through the scrutiny the family will endure, and it can be a nightmare.”

So the thing I find most disturbing about Bristol Palin’s blog isn’t that it’s so obviously written by a 45-year-old staffer. It’s that the 45-year-old staffer is so bad at pretending to be a 20-ish woman….

(Bristol Palin )

guardiancomment: Vidal Sassoon and the politics of hair At the age of 17, Vidal Sassoon was active in anti-fascist work in his local East End of London. Working against the blackshirt thugs who would march through his neighbourhood, the young Sassoon was given a bruise or two. Talking about his activities on Desert Island Discs, he said: “After the Holocaust, no one was going to put up with it. ‘Never again’ was the theme. Never again.” He also went on to fight in the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, prompting a Daily Telegraph writer to call him an “anti-fascist warrior-hairdresser”. Photograph: Ronald Dumont/Getty Images Honestly, I had no idea. This is fascinating. 

guardiancomment:

Vidal Sassoon and the politics of hair

At the age of 17, Vidal Sassoon was active in anti-fascist work in his local East End of London. Working against the blackshirt thugs who would march through his neighbourhood, the young Sassoon was given a bruise or two. Talking about his activities on Desert Island Discs, he said: “After the Holocaust, no one was going to put up with it. ‘Never again’ was the theme. Never again.” He also went on to fight in the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, prompting a Daily Telegraph writer to call him an “anti-fascist warrior-hairdresser”.

Photograph: Ronald Dumont/Getty Images

Honestly, I had no idea. This is fascinating.