This is childish nonsense. Healthy dose of salt req'd. Click for Serious Cosmo.
Huffington Post front page.
Wow. ALL CAPS Arial and a chart saved as a lossy-ass JPG instead of a PNG. This might just be my least favorite thing on the Internet right now.
(source image - from here, blame HuffPo for the Arial and at least some of the generation decay)
“Stats is probably the most important feature in helping Vimeo’s video creators know more about how well their content has been received, as well as who’s watching it.”
Gah! So freakin’ tempting. I would totally pay for Vimeo if I actually took any of my own footage.
UNACCEPTABLE
john:
“When the event ended, I watched everyone stumble out of Housing Works toward the after party, and I thought to myself that maybe, just maybe, it was time for me to switch from Wordpress to Tumblr.
- The New Yorker: “A-Tumblring We Go”
Tumblr Reads in The New Yorker. Yes it feels like the right time.
Yeah. Unless you want comments. Or, uh, any features at all.
Tumblr is Internet porn and a dirty handkerchief—quick, satisfying, convenient, effective, and above all else, easy. But you don’t want to be doing it for the rest of your life
WordPress is a girl who’s hot enough, smart enough, stable enough and funny enough to marry. Not only does it have an insane knack for learning new tricks, but if you’re savvy enough, you can teach it your own.
I should probably also mention Tumblr terms of service, and remind all you limp-sad hipsters to effing back-up your blogs. A self-installed, self-hosted WordPress setup has no terms of use. It’s your shop, top-to-bottom.
Query: would my sex life have been richer (read: existent) if I had asked Jenni for advice in high school?
Also, really, journalist? Really? “Who do you hope to touch with the work you’re doing?” That seemed like a good question to ask the SEX THERAPIST?
You can safely ignore everything you read at Examiner.com. You have my word on that.
I have found that sometimes @Tweeting someone you need to reach is more effective than email. I am wondering if Reblogging will work in a similar manner. I have been trying to get a response from Meaghan via email since last Wednesday to no avail regarding a corporate Tumblr. I even went to the Tumblr event on Friday but couldn’t find a reasonable moment at the event to talk to someone from Tumblr about my needs since it was clearly a packed and popular event.
Perhaps a reblog will work! HEY MEAGHAN! CHECK YOUR EMAIL! I WANT TO TALK TO TUMBLR AS A REPRESENTATIVE FOR A PRETTY BIG FASHION BRAND! S’UP!
Ohh digital. This might be why big brands find the digital space unappealing. It takes someone in the native environment to get through to anyone. Thus your digital managers actually have to be twentysomethings in order to navigate digital partnerships. Because if phone calls didn’t work before now emails don’t work meaning you have to resort to any number of other attention grabbing tactics. And does anyone expect a busy executive to take the time to pester potential companies about partnerships via Twitter or Tumblr or Facebook message? I’ve got my doubts.
Dear Julie,
I’ll be on ChatRoulette at 1pm EST.
Come find me!
:D
M
My work email is chained to a 5-year-old client. A proper airing of grievances would probably cause a character overflow.
Needless to say, pretty much any communications tool developed in the past few years is preferable.
Yeah. If you want to sync Facebook’s photos to your contacts, you have to give Facebook your friends’ info—regardless of their consent or knowledge.
I am especially irked that Zuckerberg’s term for this backdoor data harvesting is making them “subject to the Facebook Privacy Policy”.
What a choad of a company.
![Oh Facebook. Your success is becoming a monument to irrelevance technical inferiority.
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Oh Facebook. Your success is becoming a monument to irrelevance technical inferiority.
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No, you’re wrong, and nothing could be further from the truth.
The web is not a welfare state. Users pay no web taxes, surrender no rights to developers, and have no expectation of representation, protection, or support.
Developers pay attention to user feedback at their discretion, because on paper, users collectively decide which ventures become successful and which ventures fail. This is the social contract that governs the online world.
Demagoguery abets us little. How many productive hours were lost to users idiotically opening malicious email attachments and blithely forwarding them to co-workers? We need more better-educated, more intelligent users, and dumbed-down designs present no incentive for users to wise up.
Users are and have always been on their own for learning how things work. We haven’t failed people who can’t grasp the address bar—they have failed themselves. We only fail them when we begin catering to their shortcomings.
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