Tom Cheshire’s article How Tumblr’s David Karp built a £500 million empire is a good retrospective of how my favorite blogging platform grew to have more page views than Wikipedia or Twitter.
Having raved about and avidly used Tumblr since it first appeared, I can say he gets the facts right, as I know them, while telling me more I didn’t know about the history of a favorite internet startup.
If you don’t know, Tumblr is still the easiest way I know of for anyone to blog.
I set this as my default search engine a couple weeks ago, and have rarely missed Google.
“More instant answers, less spam, real privacy”, results ordered without bias.
“A search engine should be designed to send users quickly and accurately away to whatever sites on the Internet they’re looking for.” — John Gruber
“For a long time, illegal file-sharing has been a powerful market and promotional tool for the music industry.” — Frédéric Filloux
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The solution to piracy must be a market solution, not a government intervention, especially not one as ill-targeted as SOPA….
Policies designed to protect industry players who are unwilling or unable to address unmet market needs are always bad policies.
” — Tim O’Reilly, publisher
A threshold paywall… is the commercial equivalent of the National Public Radio model, where sponsors reach all listeners, but direct suport only comes from donors… Newspapers with thresholds now aspire to NPR’s persuasiveness.
|noun| a derogatory term that means someone who is blindly and irrationally devoted to a product that I believe is inferior to what I bought when faced with a similar choice, and whose opinions and arguments can therefore be completely disregarded.
(according to Marco Arment)
“How would you do it differently if the building were burning down?” — Seth Godin
“Why bother going to a meeting, if you’re not prepared to change your mind?”
— Al Pittampalli
1. Show up
2. On time
3. Work hard
4. Be kindI do wish many of my students understood just how far the first three of these rules will get you. Number four is a bonus, and at the least should always be practiced DOWN: be nice to office staff, building service workers, groundskeepers, wait staff, and the like, since they are essential and doing what are quite often terrible jobs. Sycophantic sucking up to power, however, is a type of “kindness” always to be avoided.
via Politicalprof [adapted from George Takei’s Facebook page]
“I’m doing the majority of my reading in RSS and Instapaper where I can read in peace without being pummeled by distractions.”
(Source: writertogo)
![When to contact coworkers on vacation - a flow chart by Rian van der Merwe.
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When to contact coworkers on vacation - a flow chart by Rian van der Merwe.
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(Source: rianvdm)
There’s only one situation in which inches are a useful measure of digital images: when you print them. We measure the size of the paper it is printed on, such as a 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of letter-size paper, or a 4 x 6 inch photograph.
While the quality of a printed image can be measured by counting how many dots-per-inch (DPI) were used to print it. Dots-per-inch means what is says: 300 DPI means each square inch of the image is made by printing 300 tiny dots across by 300 tiny dots high.
If you want to print a poster 11 inches wide and 17 inches tall, and your printer is set to print 300 dots per inch, than ideally your digital image should be 3300 pixels wide by 5100 high. If your printer outputs a mere 100 pixels per inch, than the image need only be 1100 x 1700.
But if you’re not printing, don’t worry about, don’t even think about inches. For you, there are no inches.
