Still Not Going To Do This Every Day

"[In the Asia Pacific Region] Tumblr is outstripping Facebook in terms of bandwidth used in the..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:34:52 -0400

“[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

Saw this last night; was on the fence. But I do love that Fox...

Sun, 13 May 2012 12:32:44 -0400

Saw this last night; was on the fence. But I do love that Fox lets you see the first 12 minutes as teaser.

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Sat, 12 May 2012 10:45:08 -0400

Oh, for fuck's sake.:

Kansas lawmakers pass ‘Sharia’ law bill - KansasCity.com

ginag: RSVP! teocracy: Uma das coisas mais interessantes que...

Fri, 11 May 2012 16:19:51 -0400

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.

The Most Important thing I Can Tell You

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:59:16 -0400

dearclassof2012:

People will tell you that white wine gets red wine stains out of the carpet.

It does not.

—Mark Coatney

My contribution to the Yahoo #classof2012 Tumblr. Your mileage may vary.

nycedc: NYC’s Burger Economy May is national hamburger month,...

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:40:24 -0400

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...

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:39:36 -0400

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..."

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:34:03 -0400

“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...

Thu, 10 May 2012 13:31:22 -0400

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.

chrismohney: office communication: Why isn’t this on Tumblr...

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:07:51 -0400

chrismohney:

office communication: Why isn’t this on Tumblr yet? So there you go.

I asked for this, so…..

Mark Coatney Approves this Message

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:27:05 -0400

noahedavis:

Scott Boras is basically a war criminal.

Jeter Dairies. Best thing right now.

cheatsheet: In case you’re a graduate of one of the many...

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:07:09 -0400

cheatsheet:

In case you’re a graduate of one of the many colleges in North Carolina and were feeling embarrassed. (via Buzzfeed)

Well, now we know why Santorum doesn’t want you to go to college….

bitly blog: Time Is On Your Side

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:17:05 -0400

bitly blog: Time Is On Your Side:

bitly:

Did you see those silly cats on Tumblr, that breaking news on Twitter, and those photos of your friend’s kids on Facebook? Different social networks have their own distinct personalities. Bitly links are shared across all social networking services, giving us a unique viewpoint on how these…

This is fascinating, but I think it gives very little attention to the most important part of this, which is: When are the people that you’re trying to reach most active on that service? The fact that Tumblr gets a lot of sharing use in the evening hours isn’t surprising, because it has a high concentration of younger users. But those might not be the people you are trying to reach; Tumblr also has a good audience reading it at work, and if you’re targeting those people you’re probably better off posting earlier in the day.

Abraham Lincoln Filed a Patent for Facebook in 1845

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:56:35 -0400

Abraham Lincoln Filed a Patent for Facebook in 1845:

nslayton:

futurejournalismproject:

dbreunig:

Nate St. Pierre writes:

Lincoln was requesting a patent for “The Gazette,” a system to “keep People aware of Others in the Town.” He laid out a plan where every town would have its own Gazette, named after the town itself. He listed the Springfield Gazette as his Visual Appendix, an example of the system he was talking about. Lincoln was proposing that each town build a centrally located collection of documents where “every Man may have his own page, where he might discuss his Family, his Work, and his Various Endeavors.”

He went on to propose that “each Man may decide if he shall make his page Available to the entire Town, or only to those with whom he has established Family or Friendship.” Evidently there was to be someone overseeing this collection of documents, and he would somehow know which pages anyone could look at, and which ones only certain people could see (it wasn’t quite clear in the application). Lincoln stated that these documents could be updated “at any time deemed Fit or Necessary,” so that anyone in town could know what was going on in their friends’ lives “without being Present in Body.”

A patent request for Facebook, filed by Abraham Lincoln in 1845.

I’ve long argued Facebook is working towards natural or timeless (for lack of better words) human interaction. That their central idea is relevant in any age should not be surprising.

(Though it is astounding Lincoln was imagining a nearly identical privacy system.)

(Via The Next Web)

FJP: Color me fascinated — Michael.

This is amazing. Wow, I need to look into this.

Oh, come on people.

Essential Dublin prep.

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:03:20 -0400

Essential Dublin prep.

Today in Advertiser Pressure Campaigns for Which I'm Pretty Sure the Proper Response is "Thank You!"

Tue, 08 May 2012 10:20:18 -0400

Today in Advertiser Pressure Campaigns for Which I'm Pretty Sure the Proper Response is "Thank You!":

shortformblog:

I also encourage everyone to continue to pressure Kellogg’s to pivot: they refuse to criticize Jon Stewart for his April 16 “vagina manger” stunt and indeed acted irresponsibly when they offered a lame response to our serious concerns.

Today, all the top management at Kellogg’s will receive a color photo of a naked woman with her legs spread and a nativity scene ornament in between. Let’s see if that jars them. Over 700 photos have been sent to leaders in Battle Creek, Michigan.

I'll Take "Politicians Walking Back Deeply-Held Convictions In Light of Newer Deeply-Held Convictions for $200, Alex"

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:42:04 -0400

CONSTITUENT: My question concerns your current and previous feelings toward the author and philosopher Ayn Rand. [...] Mr. Ryan, are you telling us that your political career was founded on the concepts of a rally of hers, but until recently, you never realized Ayn Rand was an outspoken atheist, that she felt altruism was evil, supported abortion, and condemned Christianity for advocating compassion for the poor?
PAUL RYAN: [...] Just because you like someone’s novels doesn’t mean you agree with their entire worldview philosophy. She has a worldview philosophy which is completely antithetical to mine because she has an atheist philosophy. [...] It’s really kind of a canard, is what I would say.
CONSTITUENT: You spoke as a keynote speaker for Ayn Rand banquets. You were quoted at length about how you loved her. You say you grew up and Ayn Rand taught you who you are and what your values are. I think we’ve learned the question of your honesty.
RYAN: It’s a great book! It’s a great book! Let’s go on to somebody over here, I think we’ve covered it pretty well. By the way, I don’t require it. I have a reading list. Lots of young people ask me what are good books. I give them Alexis de Tocqueville, I take the Founders, Friedman, Hayek, Atlas Shrugged. There are lots of good books worth reading if you want to study freedom, free enterprise, the Founders, economics. There are a lot of good books out there to read, it doesn’t mean that you subscribe to the person’s worldview and philosophy. That’s really kind of a stretch.

rachelfershleiser: heidijulavits: A GOLDMINE FOR TUMBLR...

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:28:32 -0400

rachelfershleiser:

heidijulavits:

A GOLDMINE FOR TUMBLR HANDLES

As old cemeteries are to baby names, so is the New York Intel blog’s “Gossip Girl Reality Index” to tumblr handles. Below, a few of the unclaimed.

wafflemaking-eunuch

carole-lombard-is-my-spirit-animal

128-paisley-smoking-jackets

lonesome-cake

universally-known-date-rape-circus

my-secret-half-brother-is-a-gay-ashton-kutchner

exiled-to-dubai-after-what-happened-in-santorini

no-way-people-ate-udon-in-1983

bullshit-fannypack-plotline

cars-without-stemware-are-beyond-the-realm-of-my-experience

my-sworn-enemy-has-nancy-pelosi-hair

read-beloved-six-times-while-experimenting-with-lesbianism

will-you-die-alone-after-shitting-yourself-in-a-duane-reade

i-do-my-cardio-in-the-evenings

bang-someone-of-your-own-caste

hit-on-by-two-bronfmans

the-gays-are-loving-hungry-hungry-hippos

a-cashmere-scarf-not-useful-for-any-wintry-purpose

In case you had momentarily forgotten that Heidi Julavits is a Tumblr genius…

I refuse to believe “the-gays-are-loving-hungry-hungry-hippos” is not already a Tumblr blog.

Today in Did You Know?

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:13:47 -0400

You can post to your Tumblr blog via email.

’s True!

CHECK OUT MY TUMBLR STORYBOARD just below...

Mon, 07 May 2012 12:16:43 -0400

confessionsofamichaelstipe:

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In which Michael Stipe learns the lessons of Search Engine Optimization a little too well.