(meant that in a conspiratorial, black trenchcoat, top secret tip kind of way)

On Feb 28, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Aditi Rajaram wrote:

> 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
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