I checked it out and played around with it, and it's definitely cool (bookmarklet). But I think that Fred's point that there's a social layer that a stand alone blog doesn't have is important, plus the idea that we can reach a different audience (as with sfc's twitter, I think the outreach aspect is more important than the sticking to FL/OSS). I played with importing the main blog's feed and it looks horrible on Tumblr - which brings me to another point, which is that Wordpress and Tumblr have fundamentally different purposes. Tumblr is to share media, and I still think it does that much better than Wordpress.
There is this: http://themes.gelatocms.com/ which is an open source tumblelog software, but the themes that they have frankly look kind of bad. Which brings me to another point: Tumblr has an active community with lots of resources available. Gelato looks, frankly, dead. Lastly, and this is most important, is that while I'm not uncomfortable using Wordpress, I am far more comfortable using Tumblr. I think that if there was a way to import the Tumblr feed into our main blog, maybe we should consider that? But like having simultaneous Twitters/Dents, there's no reason the two can't happily co-exist :). On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Nelson Pavlosky <[email protected]>wrote: > The bookmarklet is available right now, on the FreeCulture.org blog. > > http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This > > http://freeculture.org/wp-admin/tools.php > > Please switch ;-) I think that what you have on the Tumblr can easily live > on the SFC blog, I do not think that having too many posts on our blog is a > problem. If desirable let us import the SFC blog's RSS feed into Tumblr. > > ~Nelson~ > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Aditi Rajaram <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Ooh good to know! >> >> But I'm all about the tools that are available now. ;) When that's rollin >> maybe I'll switch! >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Ben Moskowitz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> (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 >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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