Seems I missed my one-year active-on-Tumblr anniversary. And quote posts: clearly my thing.
#META
#tumblr
#STATS
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"It’s closest to Tumblr right now — another product that occupies the space between full-blown blogging like WordPress, and ultra lightweight blogging in Twitter. Clearly Twitter is moving more towards Tumblr. If Medium adds templates and CSS they will be aimed squarely at Tumblr."
Thread: Bullet points on Ev’s new startup
Winer on Medium.
#writing
#publishing
#Medium
#Branch
#media
#meta
#Tumblr
Having been thinking this, too:
The more I understand about Medium, the more trouble I have seeing how it co-exists with another Williams startup, Branch. It seems like they’re both camped out in the same space betw blogging and Twitter. That as the two products evolve they will keep colliding with each other.
Bennett: Even if you have a long-form story, which we’ve seen a big resurgence of on Tumblr in general, choosing the right photo to go with it and choosing where you want your text break to be. The fact of the matter is people don’t want to have to scroll endlessly to get through your post — they want to look at the headline, maybe a few lines of text and the photo, and decide if it’s something they want to click on. I think people think a lot about their display and imagery on Tumblr, almost in a way more so than they would a regular website.
Proud to announce that Percolate is a Tumblr technology partner for brands. Here’s what that entails.
After a week or so of the Tumblr pins, I’m over them. The kinds of things that people want to pin are usually exactly not the kinds of entries I want shoved in my face.
The act of un-pinning is also getting associated with annoyance. Probably not a good idea to train users to feel annoyed regularly.
One take on the Tumblr pins
27,228 notes over 4 days and growing. Pretty good case study.
"Is the future of “home pages” a chronological update of what you’re doing? Or, more precisely, are you the sum of everything you share?"
Is the future of “home pages” a chronological update of what you’re doing? Or, more precisely, are you the sum of everything you share?
Tumblr lead designer Peter Vidani: ‘Are we the things we share?’ | The Verge
“Tumblr likes to party” … Bitly data shows Tumblr posts perform best later in the day.
"The actress Amandla Stenberg literally looks like a tiny angel, but this movie-goer equates blonde with innocence. A little black girl is not automatically innocent, no. Only a little white girl. Actually, only a blonde. The posts go on and on and on. It’s not just a coupe of tweets, it’s not just a coincidence. There’s an underlying rage, coming out as overt prejudice and plain old racism. Sternberg is called a “black bitch,” a “nigger” and one person writes that though he pictured Rue with “darker skin,” he “didn’t really take it all the way to black.” It’s as if that is the worst possible thing a person could be."
#This is why I'm a misanthropist
#hunger games
#WTF
#racism
#race
#Twitter
#tumblr
#Social media
