List of Book Blogs
Last night I made a list of book blogs on tumblr which you can see here.
tagged with tumblr
Google+umblr
Dear Tumblr and Google+,
I need you to mate. I’ll provide the wine coolers.
Thanks,
Oliver
Loving the new messaging in Tumblr
Nice to have the ability to have a conversation offline as opposed to responding via posting or surfing over to a person’s site to respond (by asking).
This is the type of post I will immediately scroll past. The reasons?
- The post guilts the reader into reblogging it.
- The wording doesn’t work for a topic so serious. When read, it sounds like 97% of Tumblr should reblog for (or in favor of) cancer. Hunh? Do it for cancer? Additionally, there is no context.
- Assuming percentages are correct (?), how does the author know that someone who presses a few buttons to reblog is truly willing to join in to make a change. And what is that change? What is the true effort forwarded? The post does not speak about how it plans on helping the fight to cure cancer through this post. In fact, I’ve only just made an assumption. Nothing is stated about research, a cure, the fight.
- Because it does not provide this explanation, reblogging the post does nothing other than to ramp up the number of people responding to it.
- Ramping up the number is great if you can take this statistic and effort and put it to good use somehow, but again
- see #3.
- Nothing in the post helps awareness or understanding other than the use of the word, “cancer.” There isn’t even a link to the American Cancer Society.
I can appreciate the sentiment behind the post. I truly can. But if the post was meant to collect a Tumblr stat, we need to be more responsible as readers to distinguish between a true effort and one that is using something as serious as cancer as a means for self-aggrandization. I find ways of contributing that make a quantifiable impact (usually money or participating in fundraising events). Reblogging this type of post and having this “stamp” on a blog isn’t, in my mind, impactful. It dilutes individual motivations to act because it’s all too easy to use a reblog as a substitute for real contributions to an effort so large and needed.
The multiple layers of Tumblr
It’s exceptionally difficult for me to scroll through the Tumblr Dashboard with text and images of the devastation in Japan and the continued horrors occurring in Libya, because mixed in are slices of life’s funny, happy, sensual, and quirky items. It reminds me of the day I read about the children in China who were being killed at school.
Seeing these types of global events, I take pause to forever remember why life is a delicate balance. And why even the simplest things in my life are worthy of attention, whether it’s sipping a cup of tea in silence, or taking 30 seconds away from the laptop to turn around, look eye-to-eye, and pay attention to what my son wants to tell me, or helping someone push their stalled car over to the safer side of the road.
Thoughts to Japan, Libya, and all over.
Directory: OUT
Explore: IN
From Tumblr:
It’s hard to organize Tumblr blogs by topic. A single one of your blogs may include your personal updates, your art, your opinions, and a YouTube video of a cat speaking Japanese, all in a single day. This has been a real limitation of the current Tumblr Directory. So, for the last few weeks we’ve been experimenting with some brand new tools for exploring Tumblr.
The new Explore page organizes and filters posts by tag. This means that every tagged post has a chance to show up in front of an audience of millions that might not otherwise see it. Think Tumblr Radar by topic.
Up top, the Tumblr Wire makes a return, pulling in featured posts in realtime. Below is a list of popular and trending tags (currently English only, with more languages coming soon). You can also Track these tags to get notifications on your Dashboard when a new post is featured.
Make sure to tag your posts where relevant to help more people find you. You can still look up any tag using the search box on your Dashboard.
We’ve already started finding posts and following blogs that we had no idea existed. Please give it a spin!
For those looking to post long written works
Tumblr writers: If you’re looking to post long written pieces (short stories, long poems), it’s a good idea to use the READ MORE button. Not everyone wants to see a two-mile long post in their dashboard. And Tumblr is not WordPress (which is why we’re here), so you shouldn’t use it in the same manner. Just an opinion. The READ MORE button allows you to show a portion of your work and a courtesy to the reader to either move on or read more of your post.
So, how do you use the READ MORE button?
- Before you post anything, check in Preferences: under “Edit posts using,” you need to have checked, “rich text editor,” then Save settings.
- In your Dashboard, click on the “Text” button.
- Fill in your Title.
- Then either compose or paste-in your work. If you are pasting your work into the window, Tumblr will retain some of the style of the original text and format it into your theme’s fonts. Sometimes it’s cleaner to paste your work into a text editor (like Notepad) first. Then copy over, then re-stylize. You’ll need to delete
Yes. It exists.
Will-power.
Okay, so that was an interesting pause. Good to be back after a refill of perspective. Missed y’all.
