Mar 03 2010
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Breakfast by Oliver Schwarzwald…
Photographer Oliver Schwarzwald recently completed a series of photographs for depicting breakfasts eaten in different countries around the world. The series was shot for the German magazine Feld Homme and is composed of various foods commonly eaten in the morning. (via)
Mmmm my breakfast is so boring in comparison.
I realise this is already my 1004th post. after, what 6 mths.
yay for tumblr it brings a tingeyness of joy into my life. esp. the hours when i’m at home, with nothing to do (except everything else).
tumblemumble.
yay for a spammage of peterpan
and this is my 1004th post.
I’ve been blogging for some 21 months and this is my 1004th post.
Enough of this meta talk, back to your regularly scheduled programming at the beep..
Mar 02 2010
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Mar 01 2010
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Shit Happens (get this on a tee | get this on a tee in European store | make your own tee |
get this on a postcard)
OMG THIS IS MY ONE THOUSAND AND FIRST (1001) POST ON THIS TUMBLELOG. HURRAY! VIVA LA TUMBLR!
Feb 28 2010
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The Complex of All of These (via januarypress) now this is true bookmaking craftsmanship. letterpress too. omg.
Why Conservatives Should Care About Transit « Public Discourse:
Consider how small businesses are affected by Americans’ dependency on cars. Since businesses are obliged by zoning restrictions to locate far away from residential areas, most Americans drive to every store they visit. This means that store visits are often discrete trips that must be undertaken consciously and planned out ahead of time. As a consequence, shoppers will want to visit stores that carry the most diverse inventory—Wal-Mart, Costco, et al.—and avoid shops that specialize in one particular kind of good—the local paint store or flower shop, for instance. Moreover, since small shops cannot afford to spend large sums on advertising, they can’t buy the enormous signs and billboards that direct shoppers to large retail outlets, nor gin up hype for their products with coordinated television spots. Perhaps if their potential customers could walk by their storefronts they would have a chance to notice window-displays and similar kinds of small, careful advertising. At 60 miles an hour with the AC cranked up, the attention of their potential customers is focused elsewhere.
The League of Moveable Type – a collection of quality, free and open-source fonts. The open-source type movement.
Tumblr Stole My Domain At The Behest of A Corporation
I’ve run pitchfork.tumblr.com for almost a year now. I had several posts up and I followed 28 people with the account. All my posts are now gone and my address has been changed to pitchfork1.tumblr.com. Where my blog once stood now stands the official Tumblr for Pitchfork Media Inc. Watch out, Soup, I hear Campbell’s is gunning for you next.
Recently, one of my friends who is subscribed to my pitchfork tumblr was surprised to see a sudden change in the content I was posting. That’s because Tumblr stole my subdomain and gave (sold?) it to Pitchfork Media Inc.
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I think I’ve said this before, but everyone who posts here should internalize it: you have very little control (legally) over what you post here. Check out the Terms of Service - you own your own content, but Tumblr has a very broad license to do whatever it wants with the content, including moving or deleting it. I can’t fault them for the language because they need broad rights to run the site in the first place, but it’s also not something that I think most users are aware of or have internalized.
Given that you have so little control over the content you post, you have even LESS control over the URL you select. [WHATEVER].tumblr.com is a Tumblr subdomain, so they can do whatever they want with the URLs, whenever they want. They need this power too, because they need to be able to reserve URLs for “major” content providers and people who will eventually drive revenue.
Now all of that is pretty legalistic, isn’t it? And we don’t really care about all that. Tumblr’s big sin here was being completely silent about what it was doing and not communicating with the user before pulling the switcheroo. This is the kind of hybrid legal/outreach problem that you’d expect Tumblr to get right given how many “community” people they’ve hired, but once again they haven’t. An in-house counsel with dual legal/business responsibilities would be the perfect person for dealing with these issues (like Gaby Darbyshire at Gawker).
Yes, that discrepancy about 10 minutes versus 72 hours is huge.
Now, moving on, though this is more amusing than Matt Mullenwag carrying some personal vendetta onto my WordPress.com blog’s comments..
