I hang my hat at Tumblr
How to use a Tumblr Bookmarklet:
All you amazing Tumblr bloggers who don’t use the Bookmarklet are blowing my mind right now. The Bookmarklet changed my life—it is the reason I sustain an active online presence when I used to write two blog posts and give up. It changes blogging from an extra task to find time for into a way to draw value from the byproducts of what I do anyway—read about culture online.
1) Go to http://www.tumblr.com/goodies.
2) Drag the “Share on Tumblr” button up to your toolbar.
3) Click it whenever you want to blog something!
4) Text that is highlighted will automatically be quoted! Photos will automatically be captured in the photo tab! Youtube pages will be ready to go on the video tab, no embed code required! Most importantly, credit will already be linked to the source! You can also add your response, analysis, commentary, etc.
5) Share more great stuff in way less time, and live happily ever after!
Whew, I feel better!
Love,
Rachel
The more you know…
Is A Reblog The New Byline?
Interesting idea submitted by Alakananda Mookerjee (blog / Tumblr) — FJP.
My reloaded résumé quotes a quixotic statistic—the number of my original and curated posts. I mention the number of times I have reblogged others, and others, have reblogged me.
No, I am quipping. But, stick around.
As nearly all of us know, today, the profession of news reporting is in a state of creative destruction.
This is the Golden Age of Social Networks. It is the heyday of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Google+, among countless other networks.
To borrow a phrase from David Brooks’ op-ed in The New York Times, “The Saga of Sister Kiki, “online, eyeballs and page-views are king.”
But, regardless, a byline is what it is—a prestige. And the more venerable a publication it appears in, the greater its journalistic stock value.
When reputable news organizations, everyone from The Economist to The New Yorker to the NPR have eagerly taken up social blogging, it is not terribly irrelevant to ask if getting reblogged on Tumblr, by a media heavyweight, is the digital equivalent of a byline in its print or online version.
A narcissistic life-form, who believes in selfless self-promotion, may well put that on her or his résumé, stating that her or his post was reblogged by The Washington Post.
No?
Can’t wait to see “As Reblogged by the Washington Post” on ads worldwide.
This is going to be the cover for our first album.
O Estado de São Paulo: A surpresa que veio do Brasil
NOVA YORK - Não faz nem cinco meses, a rede de blogs Tumblr era apenas uma promissora empresa de internet no vasto universo de startups de tecnologia americanas. Em setembro passado, no entanto, investidores - e concorrentes - passaram a olhar de forma diferente para o site de hospedagem de blogs criado pelo americano David Karp em 2007.
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This picture was taken on my first day at work at Tumblr, in July 2010. It’s been an amazing ride so far, and I feel so lucky to have been a part of this.
Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: Tumblr Tuesday
We don’t endorse candidates. We do, however, wholeheartedly endorse these Tumblrs:
jspong: Texas Monthly senior editor John Spong, purveyor of old photos of famous people from Texas.
hollybailey: Writes about the 2012 race for Yahoo! News! Follow for instragrams of Mitt Romney looking at…
Seconded
Today in Tumblrs We Love: Dispatches from the American Now, a great new Tumblr from American Public Media.
Two days ago, you guys stepped up once again to show the world just how much we care about protecting the Internet. Together, we generated more than 140,000 calls to Senators, spent more than 4,200 hours on the phone with their staffers, and blacked out 650,000 of our blogs to make our point and inspire others to get involved. And what’s more, this was on top of the 90,000 calls we sent to members of the House of Representatives a month ago. Incredible.
It’s now becoming clear just how much impact our action is having. On January 18th, only 31 members of Congress opposed these bills. Just one day later, 101 members of Congress publicly stood with us in opposition. We are being heard.
And as of today, it looks like both the Senate PIPA and House SOPA bills have been shelved, for the moment. It seems pretty likely that the bills won’t pass as written—a big first win. We now hope that Internet companies, the creative community and the content industry join together to innovate and devise new partnerships to combat online piracy. We’re confident there are effective ways to do this without damaging the Internet or diminishing our freedoms.
You’ve made a big difference in keeping the Internet a safe and open place for creators. Thank you again.
In which Topher finally gets the attention he deserves.
“Many in the industry say the legislation began to stir suspicion as early as September, with respected venture capitalists like Fred Wilson and Paul Graham calling attention to it in e-mails and on the Web. But the cause gained visibility on Nov. 16 when Tumblr added a feature that “censored” the dashboard users see when they log into the site, and pointed them to information about the bills. The idea for the feature came out of a three-hour meeting the weekend before, organized by people who opposed the legislation, including members of Fight for the Future; Brad Burnham, a partner at Union Square Ventures; and David Segal, executive director for Demand Progress, a non-profit group. John Maloney, the president of Tumblr, said the company volunteered its offices in Manhattan for the meeting, which included roughly 40 people in the room and another 40 or so on speakerphone. Employees of well-known sites like Kickstarter and Reddit were there. “They told us why it was flawed and asked us to think about it as an industry and a group,” said Mr. Maloney, who added that David Karp, Tumblr’s founder, “was very quick to raise his hand and say ‘We’re in.’ ”
Nice piece from Jenna here:
Public Outcry Over Antipiracy Bills Began as Grass-Roots Grumbling - NYTimes.com
