Would it be feasible to parrot our blog to a tumblr account?  That way,
people know how to find the original source but we can still take advantage
of network effects?

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]>wrote:

> In my experience, the advantage of Tumblr is not technological but
> social. Tumblr's social networking features enable very simple media
> sharing and re-sharing. As is true of nearly all of the centralized
> social web services (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), there are many superior
> technologies but no superior social network.
>
> I would love to see more posts on our blog(s) but I find that Tumblr
> tends to be more of a media aggregation/sharing network than a
> blogging platform. For example, this is the tumblr of Dan Lopatin
> (from the remix panel): http://skulltheft.tumblr.com/
>
> I don't know anything about Tumblr's terms of service, ethics,
> history, or export features so I can't comment on that. However, I
> think the rich media-sharing and geeking out that happens there makes
> it a potentially powerful tool for sharing FC-related videos / images
> / songs, etc.
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:47 AM,  <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > From: Rich Jones <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] sfc tumblr?
> >
> > What's the advantage of tumblr over our own blog? Is the appeal of tumblr
> > just it's noobfriendlyness?
> >
> > R
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