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staff: Name Natasha Vargas-CooperLocation Los AngelesFirst Post...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:00:05 -0400

Name Natasha Vargas-Cooper
Location Los Angeles
First Post July 2008

Natasha is a journalist. She’s written for The Atlantic, The Awl, The New York Times, and many other equally impressive publications. Her latest piece is on Rebecca Black for New York Mag. Before this, she spent several years working as a union organizer and health policy analyst for a labor union. (She also spent some time in Brooklyn not working.) She graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA with a double major in History and Public Policy. Natasha wrote a book called Mad Men Unbuttoned, and she created and hosts a monthly live storytelling series in LA called Public School.

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The Kid Should See This
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Magical Game Time
A comics and art blog inspired by a lifetime of playing video games.

Help From A Native Texan
A displaced Texan looking for re-connection. Thoughts, advice and knowledge on everything in the Texas Variety. “Y’all come back now, ya hear?” OH, WE HEAR!

staff: Now testing: Ask Me The new Ask feature lets your...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:05:05 -0400

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Now testing: Ask Me

The new Ask feature lets your friends or readers ask questions that you can choose to answer on your blog.

You can enable it from the Community tab in your blog’s Customize area.

They even come with a bunch of new theme variables for designers to format them:
{block:AskEnabled}
    {AskLabel}
{/block:AskEnabled}

{block:Answer}
    
        {Question}

        
            {AskerPortraitURL-24}"/>
            {Asker}
        

        {Answer}
    
{/block:Answer}
Enjoy!

staff: Introducing: Submissions There’s an interesting genre of...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:00:05 -0400

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Introducing: Submissions

There’s an interesting genre of blog that is more about the community than the author.

At some point you’ve probably seen Eat Sleep Draw, This is why you’re fat, or Cute Overload.

The author starts posting about a topic they care about, the readers start contributing, and before you know it, the author has become a curator.

Tumblr has always been uniquely suited for this type of blog. In fact, 6 of them have gone from Tumblr blog to book deal in the last year.

So today we’re very excited to release Submissions, a feature to streamline community-driven blogs. You can enable it from your blog’s Customize screen to let your readers submit posts via web.

staff: Introducing: Photosets If a picture is worth a thousand...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:00:06 -0400

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Introducing: Photosets

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photosets are the future of books. Enjoy!

New theme tags are available in the Theme Docs for customization.

staff: We’re throwing a Texas-Sized Tumblr Meetup this...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:00:05 -0400

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We’re throwing a Texas-Sized Tumblr Meetup this Wednesday in Austin!

Heading out to SXSW? Come on down to Clive Bar on March 16 anytime from 1:00-6:00pm to meet and hang out with Tumblr friends old and new. Plus, we’re giving away hundreds of T-shirts, thousands of buttons, and a whole mess of stickers. Also: beer!

In other SXSW news, we’re hosting a developer gathering, an industry party, and Tumblr staff will be on-hand during the entire duration of the conference. We’re looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible throughout the week!

Please RSVP here if you plan to drop by the Meetup!

staff: Inspired by Wordpress’ seriously clever use of Loren...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:00:05 -0400

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Inspired by Wordpress’ seriously clever use of Loren Brichter’s new Tweetie options, we’re launching our own Tweetie and Twitterrific compatible API. This Twitter-like API should make it easy for a lot of existing Twitter clients to start supporting Tumblr.

The really cool thing - because our following models follow a lot of the same principles, we’ve been able to take advantage of a ton of native features:

Retweeting = Reblogging

Replying = Reblogging w/ commentary

Favoriting = Liking

“@david” = ”http://david.tumblr.com/”

Conversations = Reblogs

To try out Tumblr in Tweetie 2, tap “Accounts” → “+” → enter your username and password → tap the gear icon → enter “http://tumblr.com/” in both fields.

For Twitterrific, tap ”Sources” → “Edit” → “Add a New Account” → enter your username and password → tap ”Advanced” → set “Base URL” to “http://tumblr.com/” and disable “SSL”.

staff: Now Live: The Tumblr Spotlight We’re always amazed by...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:00:06 -0400

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Now Live: The Tumblr Spotlight

We’re always amazed by the breadth and creativity we find on Tumblr, and we’re always looking for better ways for you to showcase your talents and discover other interesting blogs. With the new Spotlight, we’ve set aside a special place to highlight a few of these blogs that truly inspire us.

With your help, we’ve added hundreds to this Spotlight over the last few weeks and we’ll be adding many more, along with new categories and new languages. If you know of a great blog that we’ve missed or have a category you’d like to see, please send it to editors@tumblr.com.

It’s also much easier to find the People You Know tool where you can look up your friends on Tumblr. Note: We’ve moved the option to disable email lookups to your Preferences page.

staff: Taking over New York Fashion Week We love any...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:00:06 -0400

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Taking over New York Fashion Week

We love any chance to hang out with you guys. And with Fashion Week happening in our backyard, this seemed like an awesome opportunity to hang out with a few of Tumblr’s most stylish fashion bloggers.

Through an extraordinary effort by our new Fashion Director, Rich Tong, we’re thrilled to welcome 24 fashion bloggers to New York from all over the world!

They’ll be providing first-hand coverage that you can track at http://www.tumblr.com/nyfw, presented by American Express.

Our editors will also be featuring your best Fashion Week posts. Just make sure to tag them NYFW.

If this is something you’d like to be involved in, please let Rich know! We’re hoping to do this again in London, Milan, and Paris over the next year.

Gorgeous photo taken by Jamie Beck in our new office

staff: Twenty A short film by William Wilkinson. (previously)

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:00:05 -0400

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Twenty

A short film by William Wilkinson. (previously)

staff: Ура! Tumblr is now available in Russian. This...

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:00:06 -0400

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Ура! Tumblr is now available in Russian.

This localization makes Tumblr more accessible in Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and a host of other countries where we’ve seen new Tumblr communities emerging.

This makes eight different languages that Tumblr supports, with more coming!

You can change your language settings on the Preferences page.
Be sure to also follow the new official Russian Staff Blog.

Наслаждайтесь!

staff: Now Live: Camera Info The Dashboard now lets you view...

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:05:05 -0400

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Now Live: Camera Info

The Dashboard now lets you view the Camera Model, ISO, Aperture, Exposure, and Focal Length of any photo uploaded with Exif data.

We’ve also made this data available in themes with the following tags:
{block:Exif}
    {block:Camera}
        Camera: {Camera}

    {/block:Camera}

    {block:Aperture}
        Aperture: {Aperture}

    {/block:Aperture}

    {block:Exposure}
        Exposure: {Exposure}

    {/block:Exposure}

    {block:FocalLength}
        Focal Length: {FocalLength}

    {/block:FocalLength}
{/block:Exif}

staff: Tumblr just broke into the Top 100! Please welcome our...

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:00:06 -0400

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Tumblr just broke into the Top 100!

Please welcome our new Director of Scaling and Sysops.

Watching the community grow so quickly over the past few months has been humbling and inspiring. It’s also presented huge new scaling challenges that have quickly become a full-time job.

So we’re psyched to be welcoming Andrew Terng to the team to make sure Tumblr is fast and stable while we get everyone in the world blogging. Andrew just moved back to NYC from California where he had been scaling Delicious at Yahoo for the past two years. Welcome, Andrew!

This is an amazing opportunity you guys have given us and we’re working hard to make sure your experience here only gets better. :)

staff: Now Live: The newly optimized Tumblr web view for iPad

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:00:05 -0400

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Now Live: The newly optimized Tumblr web view for iPad

staff: Photo posts now support Animated GIFs up to 1MB....

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:05:05 -0400

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Photo posts now support Animated GIFs up to 1MB. Woo!

GIF by iwdrm featuring Blow-Up (1966)

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staff: While browsing the Dashboard, in addition to clicking J...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:12:06 -0400

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While browsing the Dashboard, in addition to clicking J and K to jump to the next and previous posts, you can now click L to like the current post!

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Jessica Coen: Names, Words, and Phrases Appearing in a Single NYT Trend Piece

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:33:05 -0400

Jessica Coen: Names, Words, and Phrases Appearing in a Single NYT Trend Piece