Jul
4th
4th
Jul
3rd
3rd
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Queen - “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
No matter how recently you think you’ve heard this song, it’s not recent enough. Give it another listen right now and smile a little on your Friday night.
Your pal,
Doug
There is a distinct lack of writers on Tumblr
reblogged from shutupinternet:
There’s such a distinct lack of text content on Tumblr that breaks even 100 words in a post, it’s pretty sad. I’m sure there are some fantastic writers out there, some fantastic thinkers too but where is their representation?
As I write this there are 1.2 million Tumblelogs, with “writer” being the ninth most popular tag and “writing” being the 18th most popular tag. That means there are a significant amount of writers on here, correct?
Nope.
The most popular Tumblelog classified under “writer” has three pictures of Miley Cyrus on its first page and a total of one hundred and forty three words. To anyone who writes significant amounts on Tumblr, like myself, frankly that is pretty insulting.
In a world where newspapers are folding due to distinct lack of funding, subscribers and new favor of online-only content, Tumblr is the perfect platform for writers: You write, you build a following, an audience, and anytime you publish you automatically have a group that auto-subscribes to your content with the possibility of reaching further once they choose to reblog and comment.
Tumblr, support your writers. Help add a text element to this picture-heavy platform that we have here.
I don’t wish for this to sound angry or rude, I just wish people wouldn’t try to change the nature of what something clearly is.
Tumblr is not a blogging platform. Tumblr is not a newspaper. Any object that can display text is the “perfect platform for writers.” Telephone poles, sidewalks, the backs of hands all can accept text.
Anyone confused might need to know that Tumblr (the service) was highly inspired by the ‘first’ tumble log, Projectionist. A site that has featured small snippets of content. Just because this particular service become popular, and you’ve found it convenient to write in, doesn’t make it blogspot. I’ve found it handy to post as few words as possible in, but that doesn’t make it Flickr, or a replacement for a physical photo album either.
Just as twitter isn’t Facebook and Facebook isn’t MyFriendSpaceSter (or such), not everything has to be an echo of some other medium or fit someone’s idea of what a platform should be when the majority of content creators in that platform are very clearly showing their preference to make it, still, a service for sharing single photos, blurbs, and links. Having subscribers is a function of content syndication as well, you can have that feature on any website by creating an RSS/Atom feed! Or you could have a mailing list that goes out to interested parties. There is no shortage of ways to get your content seen when you feel a 15 year old in skimpy clothing is taking away your attention.
You’re writing, good. You’re taking part in the participatory nature of the web on the site of being a content creator. You’ve already won the battle, but the overall war is all about making sure you’re still valid once the medium disappears and you’ve only got your content to your name to put into the new system.
If you’re only popular for posting celebrity photos on one website, and the website disappears, you likely weren’t providing the value you believed you were. I think this is well over a hundred words now.
Jun
30th
30th
www.LaughYourDickOff.com
Visit the official homepage of RAAAAAAAANDY, my character from Funny People.
Check out the soundboard, learn about Randy’s passion for helping Darfur, and more!
Jason Woliner and I also created a whole video series/documentary about Randy that will debut on the site in some form in the coming weeks.
RAAAAAAAANDY!!!!! As terrible as the character is, Aziz makes the satire hilarious.
I love that this photo is still being hit on flickr from:
That’s the funniest thing ever.
That’s 66 pages of desperation. Wow.
But I can still read the gray names, and they will give you a better impression than my generalities of those who accepted Gatsby’s hospitality and paid him the subtle tribute of knowing nothing whatever about him.
— Chapter 4, The Great Gatsby.
Jun
29th
29th
Jun
28th
28th
My photos from last night's Andrew W.K. concert.A fantastic time, but I’m still mostly deaf in my left ear. Hearing sacrificed to PARTY.
Jun
27th
27th
090626-3 - Smurf murderEwwwww. :(
Was either Smurf murder or I name it Smurficide, and no one wants that.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Look, I am unabashadly crazy for almost every John Roderick composition, but this one especially drives me nuts these days. “Is this new move just to keep moving?”
Everyone. I think I posted this same track (Hindsight by The Long Winters) some months ago, or might have posted it elsewhere, but you need to get this into your ears and brains.
Also, everyone should have a favorite line or two in the song. Mine have always been “And if I hold you now will I be holding a snowball / when the season changes and I’m craving the sun?” - partially because his delivery is perfect and because I’m always a sucker for words on the changing nature of people’s wants.
Jun
26th
26th
You can’t have an ideal without an idea.
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Me, I think. Not seeing anything similar in Google (via doug)
Rachel - “What you have there is a trope, Mister.”
(via reddestijl)
I’m just convinced it’s got to be an old trope and not just a new one.
Jun
25th
25th
You can’t have an ideal without an idea.
— Me, I think. Not seeing anything similar in Google
Google Dips Its Toe Into Travel Space With City Tours
From Jason Kincaid:
Getting started is incredibly easy — just type in where you’re visiting (say, San Francisco or London), and Google will present a suggested itinerary spanning a three day trip, with around a dozen attractions per day depending on the city. From there you can change the number of days you’ll be staying (Google will show more attractions the longer you stay), and you can also manually adjust the list of places you’d like to visit. You can add a new attraction by entering its name in a text field, and Google will try to find it in its database. All attractions include a star rating, along with its hours operation and location.I tried it out for Toronto and it’s looking very promising. The locations they pick for a day are more-or-less within walking distance, although you should probably cut the number of attractions in half and spend some more time in truly interesting places.
Also interesting: CN Tower did not appear at all in the itinerary!
What I find most interesting is that they’re (almost guaranteed to be) using the same things they already have in their other products. Google Maps travel distance and time information tied in with information on landmarks/attractions, added in with their RDFa information provided by sites for user ratings + business hours.
Once again they take what is a really serious effort by a human to get the best trip plan, best search result, fastest route, and get close to what works. Their magic isn’t in getting it right, it’s in getting it right enough to save me time.
Jun
24th
24th
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Andrew W.K. - “She is Beautiful”
There was a point during my eighteenth year where this was my favorite song.
Andrew WK - She Is Beautiful
I’ll be posting this song tonight in better quality as my song of the day. The motivation to have a good time that AWK gives off is about as close to what I think a religious/spiritual uplifting feels like.
