My nephew asked why I don’t have a Tumblr account, given my love of goofy pics. So here it is! To celebrate, I’ve paired with Tumblr and Humans of New York to help with their Hurricane Sandy Fundraiser. http://www.indiegogo.com/HONYTumblr
Considering his Facebook popularity, this is a major get for Tumblr. Glad to see he’s started off with a bang.
In addition to social media campaigns on Twitter and Facebook, the Israel Defense Forces have also opened an official Tumblr. Which is an interesting new front in the Israel/Palestine conflict, to say the least.
Props to Tumblr for giving us advance notice of downtime, and also timing it for a period when things should be quiet anyway. This is a change.
Once upon a time, the jobs in journalism were all at what we would consider traditional outlets — Time, Newsweek, ABC News, the Washington Post, etc. But these days, journalists who’ve had their pick of those publications are flocking to tech companies like Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter to create stories — content that competes, in breadth and scope, with the highest-caliber traditional publications. As print suffers a slow and painful decline, it’s not just the web that’s changing journalism as we know it — it’s tech companies like Tumblr and Facebook who are launching what could be the new new media movement. But what does this mean for the future of traditional journalistic outlets? Can a journalist remain objective when she’s employed by a company? Are journalists’ future homes in places that aren’t primarily about journalism, and should it be?
Interesting question. A thought on this: Tumblr is also creating a community of writers and journalists who wouldn’t need a job with traditional media with a little help on the traffic or monetization side. It’s one thing for Tumblr to hire people. It’s another for Tumblr to enable people to make their blog their full-time gig — so folks like those who went to Tampa and Charlotte to cover the conventions could rely on their work as their main source of income. There’s a lot more opportunity in that market (they already have the content verticals, without even really trying), and Tumblr could do more to tap the community’s creativity so it becomes sustainable creativity, the kind that strengthens the work they’re already doing.
Hi there,
Well after three years of free satisfaction and 20k users later, the road to maintain a good Wordpress plugin just got bumpier.
Users started asking questions and sending support requests. Tumblr had changed its API from v1 to v2, bringing a more secure way for their developer community and users to post stuff on their platform.
Naturally, Tumblr also started deprecating their v1 API thus making tumblrize useless for most of the install base.
I started this plugin right after Tumblr’s rise. I couldn’t make a choice between them and Wordpress. So I started working on something. Without any need for recognition, my plugin became the first to be able to cross-post to Tumblr. I was very proud to see it grow back then, and being referenced by Tumblr as example app for their API.
I had fun spending hours designing its poor logo on Fireworks.Then I had something else to focus on. I switched jobs, switched again, and Meitar came to the rescue as for long needed updates. He helped a lot cleaning the code and adding new features.
Long-story short: neither do I (because of time and skills) nor Meitar (because of time) have time to update it. I wrote to a guy who pulled it from the Wordpress plugins repository.
I wish I could have answered all the questions or pushed a “thank you but it’s broken” message to those who were using it.
Thanks to Meitar for helping out and Mark@Tumblr for promoting it.
Tumblrize, out.
In case anyone’s interested: About a week ago, Tumblr shut down posting functionality to v1 of its API, requiring anyone who uses it to register and use v2. This broke a few plugins, most notably Tumblrize, one which SFB used a modified version of to do our cool numbers and blurbs and stuff. (I even gave ‘em props in an interview once!) Unfortunately, the developers (who did great work over the years and deserve a ton of credit) don’t have the time to do necessary updates to the plugin, so they retired it. There aren’t a ton of options that do what Tumblrize did at the level it did (Example: IFTTT kind of does it, but not very well), leaving a number of WordPress users in a bit of a lurch. In case any developers with Tumblr API and WordPress plugin experience are interested in helping out a community in need, there’s a definite gap here. — Ernie @ SFB
EDIT: We might be willing to chip something in financially to make this happen. Shoot us a message if this might interest you.
First Instagram, now Tumblr: blogging service pulls Twitter-based friend finding
Farewell, Twitter? Perhaps someday there will be a better way to embed Tweets on Tumblr…
This can’t be good for Twitter.
To be clear, it’s probably not Tumblr’s fault. It’s most likely Twitter’s. What you’re seeing is a land war on consumer choice that’s taking place in bits and pieces. This is part of a slow deterioration of your rights as a social consumer, and it’s not some nerdy thing that doesn’t mean anything to you. This makes your life harder. It breaks connectivity and makes it harder to use a service that used to work — and it’s all because Twitter wants to encourage you to stay, because their model is built around making money from ads, not their API. At what point does Twitter cause a backlash from normal users instead of merely power users? And at what point does Facebook or Tumblr or LinkedIn or another network start doing the same thing in retaliation? Everyone, take a look at what Matt Buchanan has reported on Buzzfeed regarding this issue. He called it about a month ago, and Twitter keeps proving him right.
EDIT: Tumblr confirmed that it was Twitter who revoked the privilege.
To our dismay, Twitter has restricted our users’ ability to “Find Twitter Friends” on Tumblr. Given our history of embracing their platform, this is especially upsetting. Our syndication feature is responsible for hundreds of millions of tweets, and we eagerly enabled Twitter Cards across 70 million blogs and 30 billion posts as one of Twitter’s first partners. While we’re delighted by the response to our integrations with Facebook and Gmail, we are truly disappointed by Twitter’s decision.
Start following this, guys. This may be their business, but it’s your right as a consumer to export your data.
What is REBLORG, you wonder rhetorically? Rather than explain in words or images, our colleagues at Next Media Animation used words, images, subtitles, and giant kittens to explain in the universal language of English voiceover. Watch and learn.
Reblorg is here! It’s the newest thing from the Tumblr Dept. of Editorial! Reblorg: The only website on the internet.™
Yes this thing is the best thing
So TopherChris’ weird mental state get enough of a budget to pay for this NMA promo.
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twentysomethingfloater says: in the words of ed love, “C’MON SON”. Those pws were basic, ya’ll gotta step your game up some degrees. I mean, ya’ll a pretty big deal, of course people are gonna try to hit you.
» SFB says: We had secure passwords. Matt was making a joke. We worked very hard to prevent this from happening after the first round — to the point of removing app access from the backend — and apparently that wasn’t enough. We’ll work harder to ensure security in the future. — Ernie @ SFB
Tumblr Posts Start Memes and Win Jobs
Read: NYTimes
Or the story of how Stacy Lambe left DC and scored a dream job. Or the story of how BuzzFeed realized what everyone already knew.
So there was a Tumblr party tonight or something… (Taken with Cinemagram)
Just passed the 20,000 followers mark today. Wohoo!
Thank you all for making tumbling worth while.
I know for many of the greats of tumblr this figure is a fraction of their followers but I’m grateful. I do believe I haven’t returned the favour by not being as committed to tumblr as I should be.
And thus it would be grate to get your feedback on what you would like to see more of from newsflick?
As one of Newsflick’s earliest fans, we’re very happy to hear about this milestone! Keep it up, Sayid! You’re better than you think! :)
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