On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Aditi Rajaram <[email protected]> wrote: > I know, I know. Tumblr is not open source. > But, I like it.
Me too! I am a staunch Free/Libre Software supporter but I also like to think I know great software when I see it. Tumblr is great software. On the one hand, Tumblr is doing a great public good by making blogging *so easy* to enter; they increase media literacy and the ease of citizen reporting with their best-in-class platform. Furthermore, by centralizing infrastructure improvements and security updates, they eliminate the twin Wordpress-related pitfalls of hijacked and overloaded websites. At the same time, Tumblr is non-Free and so it's up to the Free world to out-compete using Free tools. What we have in freeculture.org is a capable sysadmin who handles centralized infrastructure and security updates along with tools which are entirely controlled by ourselves. If there are specific problems with what we have available now, I propose that we should put forth an effort to fix those problems and remove technical or perceived barriers to entry for Free Culture bloggers. Ryan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
