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Morgan Missen: Why I couldn't get past one page of Hunger Games -
I’ve never taken an interest in young adult novel series-cum-global-entertainment-phenomena. I never saw/read/was successfully marketed Harry Potter or Twilight, though I couldn’t escape hearing about them for what seemed like seven years each (actually, are they even over yet? is it safe to…
I’m really glad you went through this so I don’t have to. I’ve also not read Game of Thrones. <gasp!>
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After four years tumblogging as atari, Tumblr is revoking foursquare engineer Pete’s web address; with ostensibly no attempt to suggest Atari Inc. use a custom domain like tumblr.atari.com, blog.atari.com, atariinc.tumblr.com, atari.com/tumblr or atari.com/blog, which are all free and theirs for the taking.
Pete has one week to change his web address before it is changed for him. 45 million tumblogs have been created since Pete chose his username, so hopefully his second choice is available.
I’ve been a Tumblr user for just under 4 years. Personally, it’s one of the best blogging platforms around, having solved the problems associated with services like blogspot or self hosting. This is coming from someone who started with greymatter in 1999.
Of course with a service like Tumblr, there are compromises. And that’s part of its charm: with less there is more. And though Karp has moved from unknown, to little-shit, and currently media darling, Tumblr still keeps most of its rakish “for you” community spirit.
So with this duality I am disappointed to see that Tumblr is is pulling my atari.tumblr.com subdomain and handing it over to Atari™ as part of a mostly tepid request on Atari’s part. Rather than educate Atari on it’s custom domain name services and maybe suggest tumblr.atari.com, it is quick to service brands no matter how far their fall from grace. Legally, my site does not barrow on the Atari brand or content so I’m not acting in bad faith. But unlike owning a top level domain name, Tumblr (not the user) owns the subdomain so ultimately it’s their decision. And since they probably don’t want to defend subdomains on the behalf of the non-trademark holder, the choice is pretty clear.
To a point, who cares? I’ll just get another sub-domain and have a silly story to tell over drinks right? So yes, it doesn’t really matter.
But in the micro-context of the web communities, it does.
Tumblr has very much built the same sort of McLuhan global village that began as Geocities muck and has ended up with Facebook brass. It proudly represents a range of content and is striving for great. And with great comes growth and a change of priorities, mostly financially driven. But is Tumblr’s way to to financial freedom simply the process of servicing brands with a hurried social pitch over a community of that hopes to build an archive?
To this I have no real answers and no real attacks, just conversation. Will the new atari.tumblr.com have an interest in conversation?
Nope.
Unless 4-square is hiring engineers who just signed on to The Internet, HE SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
Grow up and don’t choose major brands as your blog name.
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John's Tumblr: What do you want? What do you need? -
Last week I got to spend time with a friend I’ve known & worked with more than 10 years. He’s trying to sort out some things about how to think about his job & career, so we spent a while getting caught up then he asked my advice.
I said something to the effect of, “Well, you know what I’m going…
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
We hope to built a platform that can scale feedback for online articles and essays. (In other words: be able to read reactions on an online article without giving up hope in humanity.)
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project…
Such a great project.
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