Happy New Year, Tumblr!
It’s Tumblr Tuesday!
On this final Tuesday of the decade, it might be a good time to take a somber look at where we’ve been, where we’re going, and where we are now. However, since this is Tumblr Tuesday and I’m me, I’m going to give you some whimsical predictions for 2010 instead.
In the coming months, I predict that Tumblr will release a feature to post Haikus in addition to chats and quotes. Tumblarity will be worth more than the dollar, and GPOYW will become a national holiday. Tumblr’s iPhone App will start posting automatically.
Also, somebody is going to start putting Lolcats-style text on something else and it’s going to be humongous. Here and now, the Tumblrs:
My Social Impact
Social media can make a social impact, and this Tumblr blog tracks the progress made.Animals Dressed as Humans
I thought everyone already knew about this site, but I wound up at a convention last night with a bunch of people who dressed up as animals and they wouldn’t listen to me when I told them they had it backwards.Fuck yeah, Advertising!
People love clever advertisements these days, which is for the best since they’re infiltrating more and more aspects of our lives. [THIS SPACE FOR RENT]GIFCAT
This is either the best website ever created or it’s not.American Apologies
This Tumblr blog is dedicated to apologizing for all of the embarrassments, failures, and injustices done by the United States. So far it includes hippies and Dan Quayle, so there’s really no chance this will offend anyone.Who do you nominate for the next episode of Tumblr Tuesday?
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. :)
Tumblr Tuesday
Listen Tumblr, I’m going to let you finish, but this Tumblr Tuesday is the best Tumblr Tuesday of the year…
Wow, that was a week too late. I want to apologize on behalf of everyone at Tumblr for my lapse in judgement there. Here are five awesome Tumblr blogs to clear your palette.
Stuff My Girlfriend Says
This guy’s girlfriend says the funniest things. She’s hilarious, witty, and wise. Honestly, I wonder why she’s not with a better guy. I mean, I don’t know anything about this dude, but I know he’s not the Editorial Director at Tumblr. Lose the zero and get with the hero, honey.Fuck Yeah Classical
Classical music fucking rocks. I could say more, but it would just be a stream of nonsensical F-bombs that don’t have anything to do with classical fucking music.One Drawing Every Day
The proprietor of this Tumblr blog aims to draw something every day. But wait! Today is Tuesday, and the most recent post is from Saturday. Excuse me? This is not one drawing every day, sir or madam. I hope the massive influx of attention you get from this will motivate you to stay on schedule from now on. You’re welcome!Art in my coffee!
Hey, these are pretty! My coffee never comes this way. I think it’s because I only drink iced coffee from Starbucks. But it’s moot anyway: As a slave to the corporate coffee machine, I don’t actually know what art is.Keggers of Yore
Now, before you say anything, I’m not advocating drinking, or having fun, or living in the 70s. Goodness no! I view this site regularly as a personal reminder to not do any of those things. Know why? Because I don’t want to end up on a website just like this one in twenty years.What about you? What are some other Tumblr blogs that you’re crushing on lately?
October 2007: Ruben Fleischer joins Tumblr.
October 2009: Ruben Fleischer’s major motion picture directorial debut, Zombieland, finishes out the weekend as the highest grossing movie at the box office.
The man makes good decisions. Congrats, Ruben!
Tumblr Tuesday
Happy Tuesday, Tumblr! You survived another Monday, which is a start. The real question is: Will you survive after all those embarrassing photos of yourself from Halloween surface and spread around the web? I submit that you will, if only because you’ll be distracted by your addiction to all things Tumblr, including the following Tumblr Tuesday selections. They won’t judge you, even if your friends and family will.
The Day in Photos
The fine people at DailyMe run this exemplary photo blog which captures the news of the day. Everything is generously tagged, which is helpful when you’re looking for that perfect AP photo of a cute baby panda.These Are My Dreams
If you’re into analyzing your dreams, you’ll want to stay awake for this. Zing! TAMD is a collective dream journal, which means this blog has a legitimate excuse for reading like the script from a Spike Jonze movie.Black and WTF
This site makes me wish the internet had been around since photography was invented. Think of all the epic memes and intergenerational lulz we’d be sharing with our grandparents right now.Fuck Yeah Venn Diagrams
Imagine if John Venn could see us now. He invented the Venn diagram in 1881 to demonstrate all hypothetically possible relations between sets and today we’re using them for comedic purposes. And I’m looking him up on Wikipedia. Madness.Toby, Dave & Ian Explain XKCD
xkcd is, of course, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Toby, Dave & Ian Explain XKCD is a Tumblr blog of answers, speculation, evidence, and interpretation.Who do you nominate for next Tumblr Tuesday?
