January 2012
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I prefer Artist - Title
jstn:
• less specific - more specific
• alphabetical sort naturally groups by artist
• songs sometimes don’t have titles but always have artists
..and I’m the opposite
I prefer Title - Artist
I do care about the artist, but it is generally the piece that is going to capture me, not their name.
I can care about the art and not the artist more than the reverse.
In the instance of...
December 2011
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I Work For The Internet →
staff:
We work for the Internet. And we’re guessing many of you do too. Whether it’s researching, selling, coding, supporting, designing — so many of our careers depend on the Internet.
One argument that’s been made to Congress is that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is needed to protect American jobs. In truth, the new liabilities this bill would impose on startups could stop American...
SOPA Update →
staff:
This weekend, we hosted a meeting at Tumblr HQ with top technology companies, politicians and advocacy groups to coordinate our effort to reform or prevent the well-intentioned but deeply flawed Stop Online Piracy Act from becoming law. You guys have already made a huge impact in…
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Rex Pickett's response to Quentin Rowan's... →
austinkleon:
What I find fascinating about a case of plagiarism isn’t the actual plagiarism—I think it’s much more interesting to pay attention to the responses of the accused, accuser, and spectators.
Rex Pickett, author of Sideways, rightly points out that by appropriating AA language and using “addiction” as an excuse for his plagiarism, Quentin Rowan is trivializing addiction.
But what’s...
November 2011
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Flavors.me Blog: The New Flavors →
flavorsdesign:
Today we are pleased to announce the release of a major update to Flavors, including the introduction of an innovative new way to share and view content from more than 30 services around the web: Social Streams.
Social Streams
With Social Streams, users can now easily follow their…
Did I mention I love these guys? Its rare I get all tweeter-pated with product updates...
Tumblr was meant to be viewed on Flipboard. I love it!
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Don't Go Back to School: A handbook for learning... →
austinkleon:
As a grad school dropout and a teacher at a grad program, people ask me all the time about whether or not they should head back to school. Most of them don’t really need to. What I see is that they really want to indulge a passionate curiosity to learn. To master something new, to challenge their minds, to play with new ideas, to feel driven and inspired and absorbed. Going to school...
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Let me just take a moment at this hour of the night to say.
I heart Rdio.
That is all.
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October 2011
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Tumblr is raw humanity.
via Frank: For Steve →
viafrank:
The world gives us so few who provide a way for us all to see in new ways. It always hurts when they leave. The effused sadness that has spread through the internet from the news of Steve Jobs’ death is to be expected. We lament when things are taken from us, and I’d say that Jobs’ death (like…
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs, a true visionary (via hrrrthrrr)
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September 2011
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..that feeling when you accidentally rediscover a music artist you didn’t know the name of, but loved when heard in passing…
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Make your own Javascript Confetti! →
Want to make a cool confetti effect like the “Tumblr’s Billionth Post” announcement? You can. Turns out, they borrowed this animation effect from Scott Schiller over at http://www.schillmania.com. Click it & Enjoy!
*Please particle-ize responsibly. 10 mins of tumblr confetti is starting to get annoying, so keep that in mind with your own implementation.
August 2011
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“I love using the computer but I try to stay away from it till I’ve done most of...”
– Tom Gauld (via austinkleon)
Ditto.
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“I have now, successfully, went 4 days without Internet at home. It has been a VERY interesting 4 days.”.
It has now been 2 weeks, and it’s still interesting. My productivity has increased, as well as my time management skills. I think a reflective post is necessary when this entire thing is over.
July 2011
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I have now, successfully, went 4 days without Internet at home. It has been a VERY interesting 4 days.
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G+ Invites
For the next few minutes I’ll be handing out G+ invites to those following who would like to give it a spin. Just drop your email here.
Tumblr hates email address so just use [at] and [dot] where necessary :)
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June 2011
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Robot Heart: The Great Tumblr Dashboard Refresh of... →
azspot:
I would enumerate the UI problems with the new “dashboard”, but I would simply be echoing what robot-heart has stipulated in her pair of posts. Except that the display glitch she illustrates on “Search my posts” is not present on my display(s) — perhaps it is a browser/OS…
It’s not a redesign, it’s a redecoration. Design solves problems, this just creates them.
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May 2011
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Instagram
blakewhitman:
I’m over it, sorry! Everything doesn’t have to look like it’s from the 70’s.
A sentiment I’m beginning to share myself. It seems instagram, in its own way, destroys artistic individuality by homogenizing photographic styles into “instagram-ism”
When was the last time you looked at a photo from instagram and said, “Hey! that is so [insert person’s...
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“It’s an action: stop talking, start doing. Start small and ship. Also, don’t...”
– I know Sox posted a quote too, but this quote from Ted really stood out to me. It’s dead on. I remember us not telling anyone about Flavors until it was very very close to launch, same with Goodsie, we kept it very close to the vest until it was ready to be shown to anyone else.
Bravo Mr Roden :)
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Like a dog lying in the corner, that will bite...
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April 2011
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“Fuck the people who try to tell you what a “real” writer is.”
– Jessa Crispin (via austinkleon)
The same goes for anything creative.
March 2011
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Another phrase we can do without
“…the meat of it”
All that non-meat stuff is called context. Without context, content is akin to eating a steak dinner without a plate, a fork, a restaurant, ambience, that annoying waitress, and the people around you.
We may not need anything but the meat to survive, but life is for living.
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Dear Designers & Artists Making "exclusive" Pieces...
Stop. A radical difference exists between creating art about the disaster and selling art for the disaster. We should all be helping in any way that we can, but many of you are going about it so very ethically wrong.
If you have sold blue scarves for ten years, then sell your blue scarves for a week or two and donate all the proceeds to help out Japan. Don’t create red scarves just for the...
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