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 > >
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