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I’m working on a TextMate bundle for creating Tumblr Themes. It shouldn’t take me too long. When it’s done I’ll probably put it on github for all to enjoy.
Huge. Can’t wait!
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My Tumblr dashboard is getting a little clogged. Not simply from new and existing features or the relentless postings of people I don’t actually pay attention to or my own repetitive musings or reposted Twitter updates, but a combination of those things.
So I am cleaning it up. If I stop following you, I am sorry. It’s you, not me.
Looks like someone was tired of a free site taking a piece of their pie. TypePad (or SixApart I suppose) just launched a Tumblr clone. The interface needs some work but the feature set is nice. I’m not about to jump ship, but I suspect brand recognition is going to get TypePad Micro some good publicity.
I was checking out a blogging service called Squarespace today. I love the setup. I like the layout, and I even like the philosophy of ‘pay for what you get’. I just can’t bring myself to pay for a blogging service. I don’t post enough, nor do I consider myself important enough to have a paid blog. Even if it is only $8/mo.
I actually used to pay $5/mo for TypePad when I was in college and Wordpress was no longer doing it for me. It was a great service and the first one to offer stats on the iPhone, but it just doesn’t make sense to pay for something that you want to make free (disregard how hypocritical that might seem considering that I pay yearly for Flickr, even if it is far less expensive).
How does a site like Tumblr, which prides itself on not having adds that obfuscate the layout, monetize? Doesn’t it worry you that the community you contribute to so much every day is resting on the scaffold of a free service that has no incoming funding that doesn’t have strings attached?
Now testing: Share posts you’ve liked
You can enable the option on your Preferences page.
I like this new feature by which you can share things that you ‘like’ with others. It’s just another organizational feature and one step closer to what I really want from Tumblr, which is a way to organize people you follow into groups. I think this would be quite handy when your one very prolific friend starts to get in the way of a number of photo blogs that you like to follow.
Testing Tumblrette to help speed up posting on the road. Native iPhone clients with good support can have $2 from me any day.
I get way too excited about simple things. For example, I don’t understand programing languages. I can’t code. I can’t tell you what a piece of code does. About all I know is what the bold and italic HTML code looks like. I can find, copy, and paste.
This does not stop me from constantly checking out sites like Rails Rumble, a Ruby on Rails competition. There is something fascinating about something so deceptively simple that you want it to be useful. Even if very often it isn’t.
I am currently toying with Jot.ly, one of the featured apps on the Rails Rumble page. With its Zen-like take on blogging (yes, even more so than Tumblr), anyone can get up and running and launch some text, code, quote or otherwise out into the world.
While I am not ready to jump ship, I am fascinated with development of the site thus far. I can find a use for a site like this. Meeting notes, small projects, mutli-twitter repository. It will be used, I am sure.
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