Well, to be honest, I find using Tumblr a lot easier than Wordpress - one click bookmarklet! People tried this with a Wordpress blog (a fc news site), and I had access. I never used it. It's not even a technical barrier, per se, as the conf11 blog is on Wordpress and I contributed to that, and I have a high enough level of technical expertise to use Wordpress. I just don't LIKE using it as much - it's not good for what I want to do with this. My goal isn't to mirror or even do what the main blog is doing - I think our main blog is for more blogging things, and sharing longer stories. This is for sharing bits and pieces of cool Free Culture-y things in a way that's visually appealing and easy to set up (the set up took me all of 30 seconds) and without any overhead on our end, and perhaps attract a new audience.
Alec: yes, tumblr can import an rss feed. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Alec Story <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> > > > > -- > Alec Story > Cornell University > Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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