True story.

I wouldn’t want to be just joining Tumblr right now

themattsmith:

This is not a “get off my lawn” post, I promise, but Tumblr’s hot right now. Tumblr’s HUGE right now.

I joined Tumblr in February of 2008. More than HALF of the people I follow now are people I started following in the first 6 months of using Tumblr, mainly because we had something in common- we were using Tumblr when basically no one else was, we were probably compatible personalities.

That’s not just not the case anymore. I’m not necessarily lamenting that fact, it’s just the way things go. Tumblr is a powerful platform and it is getting the recognition it deserves, it’s just that the sense of community that drew me to it in the first place is something that has to die as Tumblr frantically tries to scale.

Matt and I joined the same day, if memory serves. (hey Matt, do you remember the website that was using tumblr that I ran into your office to share? I’m stumped.)

I don’t think that “something has to die,” but I do think those early days were certainly a different kind of community… or possibly much more like a single widely-scattered and loosely-connected school of fish as opposed to the millions of unique and separate schools of fish now swimming side by side in this massive (and growing) ocean known as tumblr.

One of my favorite things about tumblr is seeing those various schools/communities overlap is surprising ways, and I don’t think adding more circles to the pool diminishes the power of the original circle as long as the participants are still invested and involved.

I agree! I joined Tumblr on May 10th, 2008. Most of the people I follow are people that I followed at the time I joined. I actually went through and removed a lot of blogs that were spamming up my dashboard and the only ones that remain are those few from the beginning.

The way I use Tumblr has come a long way but it the website I’ve stuck with the longest. I’ve had quite a few blogs but this is the one that I’ve continued to use and keep up with.

Great post!

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Source: themattsmith

Tumblr Hits Major Milestones, Plans to Start Generating Revenue

Tumblr, one of the simplest blogging platforms around, is doing really well. Situated between WordPress, which requires a bit more effort to create and organize content, and Twitter, which requires almost no effort but also doesn’t offer many features, Tumblr is the perfect tool for users who want to have a blog with photos, videos and other content embedded, but simply haven’t got the time or the will to struggle with a complex blogging platform.

Last but not least, Tumblr plans to launch two revenue generating features next month. Details are scarce (all we know is they’ll be powered by the widget, pictured below), but with constant talk of Twitter’s revenue generating plans (which are still completely open to interpretation), it’ll be interesting to see how Tumblr plans to tackle the issue. Its success (or lack thereof) might pave the way for microblogging networks (although Tumblr arguably stands in the middle, between blogging and microblogging), an area traditionally devoid of revenue.

Source: Mashable

That’s Not Good

I hate when something funny happens - either in conversation or otherwise - and the first thing I think to do is post in on tumblr. Usually, this works out for me and I get a little chuckle but more and more often I find myself hovering over the submit button thinking “Hmm, is this going to get me in trouble”.

I have no idea who actually reads this and I know the first time I badmouth someone flat out they’re going to call me out on it and I’ll be in big trouble.

Oh well.

Ehh gad! Tumblr, what are you doing to me? Why does this always happen?

Tumblr on Facebook?

As cool as this idea sounds, I’m not so sure I’m going to use it. I tried letting my Tumblr and Facebook live together once a while back when I had a Facebook note import my blog’s RSS feed. For a few days, all my posts went there and my friends would comment on them.

Then I realized - I’m kind of nerdy and a little weird sometimes. And there’s people on my Facebook that would never actually read my blog, so I’d just be opening myself up to torment and a drop in self confidence.

Dear Tumblr

Why is it that when I try to be a contributing member of tumblr society and post original content, thoughts, stories, pictures and more you decide to take a dump on me and take points off my tumblarity? Do you want me to just reblog puppies or something? Is this because you’re mad that I keep posting images when your servers decide to suck?

We need to work this out, because I can’t live like this anymore.

I hate when Tumblr decides not to work. It’s been happening more often than not lately…

My Tumblarity = Effed Up

For some reason, anytime anything noteworthy happens to my blog, my tumblarity shoots down. I posted something new - original content of my own - and it went down. Then I reblogged someone, and it didn’t do anything. Just now, I posted a song and two people liked it - and it shot down another 20 points.

What did I do to deserve this tumblr? I just want to be liked. (In the literal and post-by-post sense of the word).

I feel like I need to save my 1,000th like for something extraordinarily amazing.

But who am I kidding, I’ll use it on the first cute/sleeping puppy I see.

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