Tag Archives: 'tumblr'

• Share

  One more thought on Twitter before I am shown the exit… If it helps people communicate, god bless. And I mean that for all sorts of web services that are widely available to everyone and anyone.
  The Facebook photo application is horrible. The best photo sharing service is clearly Flickr (and for most users, the free [...]

• Loose Ends

  I’ve taken on the task of cutting some loose ends of myself around the web. Over the years, I have sampled a lot of services, most of them junk. Plenty of them were not worth re-visiting, and despite a username/password, there is nothing really there. Elsewhere, however, I have personal information of photos or videos [...]

• Tumblr, The End

  My time on Tumblr lasted a little more than one year, and although it did have some good points, I knew my time would ultimately come to an end, sooner rather than later.
  I would like to tell myself that I gave a full-hearted attempt to enjoy the service, or even consider it useful, but I [...]

• The Great Tumblr Hack

  Tumblr, the blogging platform of choice for wanna-be hipsters, has a closed database. Meaning, when (and if) you want to leave the service, you cannot take your content with you (at least not easily). Where there is a demand, a person (or persons) will undoubtedly eventually serve that demand.
  In comes the great Tumblr hack — [...]

• Tumblr Redux

  Tumblr has made a series of “improvements” to its blogging system in the last few months. I put the term improvements in quotes because improvements is relative. The popular blogging tool has introduced new permalink URLs and tags. The reason I’m poking fun at their expense is that Tumblr was supposed to be for people [...]

• The Tumblr Ruse

  I have fooled around with Tumblr. It is alright. I would grade it as “so-so.” It is not a god-send. It is not other-worldly. It is a blogging platform. Er, it is a microblogging platform. It is a mix of Blogger and Twitter. It is not the second coming. These are truths.
  Tumblr is a great [...]

• Internet People

  Dan Meth (talented Syracuse alumnus) sent me along his latest cartoon, a roast of the internet celebrities (all of them)…

  “Real internet people use Tumblr.”