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
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