Side Notes
This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
Orphan traits
- Friend: When's the last time someone you were seeing met your mother?
- Me: Claudia?
- Friend: Wow... What about the people you casually see?
- Me: I tell them I'm an orphan.
- Friend: What?
- Me: Yeah... they say it explains my personality a lot... and C'mon you know my life. This far easier to explain and is closer to the truth. How many of my stories include my parent(s).
- Friend: True.
Tumblr Staff: News!
Everyone, I’m elated to tell you that Tumblr will be joining Yahoo.
Before touching on how awesome this is, let me try to allay any concerns: We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission – to empower creators to…
Stop Crying About Free Services
If Facebook buying Instagram pissed you off, I have a suggestion. Dont just stop using Instagram, stop using free social networks and services period. Stop using sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare or Pinterest, because it is a given that they will all inevitably let you down in favor of the bottom line1. More often than not, when you actually quit a service, its not because they were evil. Its just because they either became useless or boring. The reality is that youre not going to stop using services that are useful to you2. Youre just going to waste time switching from one company to the next until your latest service inevitably falls short or sells out.
With people freaking out about Yahoo buying Tumblr, I wanted to bring this up again.
I might be part of the minority
But I think that Yahoo acquiring Tumblr isn’t a horrible thing. People are trying to draw parallels to other services, like Flickr and Geo cities, that we destroyed under Yahoo, but that happened during other CEOs, Not Marissa Mayer.
I was able to meet David Karp (Founder, and CEO of Tumblr) once, he’s bright he knows what he’s doing and what is best. I’m sure he wouldn’t sell unless he truly believed that Marissa will give him the resources he needs to continue building tumblr.
Marissa also needs to show that she bringing back Yahoo from being a fringed site, from the olden day of Web 1.0 and can engage in the new mobile web space.
These are two very smart, very capable people. I want this to succeed, not because I want to tumblr to continue, but because I want them show the world that they knew what they were doing. To prove the pundits wrong.
PUNK’D
Before unveiling a new album Random Access Memories, their first in eight years, on May 21, Daft Punk sits down for an interview with Sky Ferreira
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Something on the side from the guy behind Random Thoughts and @heyitskenn. And I'm an asshole.
