Call for Submissions: What’s Your Favorite Tumblr?
At TIME.com, we’re working on a guide to the best Tumblrs out there. But we want to know what you think first.
What Tumblr can’t you live without? (Aside from ours, of course.) Whether it’s news, photography, design or just cat videos, we want to know what you follow — and why.
Reply to this post (and include the URL) with your picks. We’ll mark popular suggestions as “Readers’ Choice” in our final list, which should come out by the end of January.
I nominate Unconsumption.tumblr.com, the extra-awesome group Tumblr — founded and led by Rob Walker — that highlights creative reuse and mindful consumption. Some background information and buzz about Unconsumption can be found here and here. (Disclosure: I contribute to the Unconsumption Tumblr.)
I don’t see a way to reply to this post other than to reblog it, so I’m doing just that. Thanks, TIME! So glad you’re in the Tumblr-hood.
<p>Thanks!</p> — Asked by Anonymous
Hey! Right now around 45,000 new Tumblr blogs are started each day. Some numbers:
- Total Tumblr blogs, 5/11: Almost 19 million
- Total Tumblr blogs a year ago: Around 5.5 million
- Number of new posts, daily: More than 30 million
- Monthly unique users: 80 million
- Total monthly pageviews: 6.7 billion.
- Per Quantcast, Tumblr is currently the 26th-largest Website in the U.S.
- That said, the U.S. only accounts for 43 percent of our traffic. Top five countries outside the U.S.: Brazil, UK, Canada, Japan, Philippines.
Let me know if you need anything else!
Why I Heart Tumblr
I’m not a blogger. Blogging is for authoritative voices with knowledge to dispense. Fred WIlson, he’s a blogger. Mark Suster, he’s definitely a blogger. Me? I’m still trying to figure it all out.
Kind of like Tumblr.
Its kind of a blogging platform. Its kind of a music service. Its kind of a photo bookmarking site. Its kind of a social network. Tumblr is figuring it all out too.
As a company, its taken them years to find their market. Maybe they still haven’t. The founders and investors stuck it out when hockey stick growth was the promise, not the reality. They saw a small, core group of users who loved the service and they chose to believed when most others didn’t. I dig that.
Its creators have strong opinions about the direction it should be going. They aren’t afraid to take away features they aren’t happy with (Tumbilarity!?!). They also aren’t afraid to tell users who complain to go away. I dig that too.
The dashboard isn’t an empty text box staring at me. Judging me. Its a vibrant window into the images, sounds and ideas of people I’ve grown to care about. I see them in a more human way than I do on any other service. The dashboard inspires me to write or let’s me phone it in with a reblog when I’m not feeling it.
You never know what’s going to happen when you post to Tumblr. Something you think will catch fire fizzles. Other times, posts you thought were flat will catch fire. Your followers, and their followers, add their ideas to yours. Each reblog knocks a rough edge off an idea or builds on a half baked thought as the post, quite literally, tumbles forward. A long diatribe can be distilled down to a single paragraph, or even sentence, that contains its essence. This collective refinement can be entertaining, infuriating and enlightening all at the same time.
Yeah, Tumblr is kind of a mess. Its a little bit broken. Its a little ADD. Its spread a little too thin. Just like me.
Which is why I love the service and why I don’t plan to leave.
Well said.
Via prostheticknowledge:
Tumblr Mosaic Viewer now has a screenshot feature, allowing you to take a shot like the one above of your archive, anywhere :)
Just click on the Camera icon to see. The result can be downloaded, or posted to your account.
Cross file under “cool tools” and “public service announcements.”
