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 > >
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