It would be neat to move toward a dashboard-like homepage for freeculture.org that pulls all of these various feeds into one place. We're already starting to move in that direction with the chapter blogs, main blog, identweetica, etc.
Kevin On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Aditi Rajaram <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] sfc tumblr? > > I checked it out and played around with it, and it's definitely cool > (bookmarklet). But I think that Fred's point that there's a social layer > that a stand alone blog doesn't have is important, plus the idea that we can > reach a different audience (as with sfc's twitter, I think the outreach > aspect is more important than the sticking to FL/OSS). I played with > importing the main blog's feed and it looks horrible on Tumblr - which > brings me to another point, which is that Wordpress and Tumblr have > fundamentally different purposes. Tumblr is to share media, and I still > think it does that much better than Wordpress. > > There is this: http://themes.gelatocms.com/ which is an open source > tumblelog software, but the themes that they have frankly look kind of bad. > Which brings me to another point: Tumblr has an active community with lots > of resources available. Gelato looks, frankly, dead. > > Lastly, and this is most important, is that while I'm not uncomfortable > using Wordpress, I am far more comfortable using Tumblr. I think that if > there was a way to import the Tumblr feed into our main blog, maybe we > should consider that? But like having simultaneous Twitters/Dents, there's > no reason the two can't happily co-exist :). > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
