John Maloney01/12/2009
Teen daughter runs into a Jonas Brother at the mall in New Jersey today.
Mercury Retrograde!
Brace for squeals.
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Christmas card sent by Surrealist artist and poet Kay Sage to Eleanor Howland Bunce (1959). From a new exhibition of personal, handmade holiday cards by American artists at the Smithsonian’s Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. Image gallery here.
Interestingly enough, this is exactly how the Christmas issue of Newsweek will look.
Just another example of how Newsweek on Tumblr has, for me, changed the perception of their brand, extended their audience demo (by a few decades?) and makes an effort to breakaway from the publishing herd.
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Beautiful long exposures by Chris Friel. Friel has been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Landscape Photographer Of The Year in 2008 and 2009, and is a
“British based colour blind painter who bought a camera in 2006.
Hasn’t painted since.”
Stunning.
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29/11/2009
Just finished hanging some xmas lights. I love this old Jersey house.
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» Dave Winer has started using Tumblr
(He’s the godfather of RSS/podcasting, an Internet veteran and one of the smartest thinkers on the future of communication and the web that I know of).
Winer mostly uses Tumblr to talk about RSS Cloud, his contribution to the real-time web.
This is a big deal. It telegraphs acceptance by the Old Guard.
Agreed this is a big win for Tumblr, although, not sure I like the term Old Guard here. ’Old Guard’ connotates an unwillingness to accept new ideas - and Winer is a pioneer, who just happens to be older than your average digerati.
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25/11/2009
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24/11/2009
Newsweek: Why We Tumbl (via meaghano)
Newsweek just gets it —> publishing community take note.
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23/11/2009
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20/11/2009
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19/11/2009
Damn. That’s some hot update action right there.
New version of the Tumblr app just went live and she’s a beauty.
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Tom Waits Interview.
Q: What’s heaven for you?
A: Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.
I once bought Tom Waits a bottle of $200 tequila (as assistant to his agent I was tasked w/ picking his Christmas present) and I distinctly remember him thanking me, in a fake cry, “man that’s the best present I got this year, that tequila was like heaven”.
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18/11/2009
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. :)
98 out of 186,727,854 (as of Dec 2009, according to Pingdom)! Wow.
Welcome, Andrew.
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17/11/2009
HOLY SHIT!
Translation = Tumblr’s beautifully positioned in the upper left of the new iPhone commercial.
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13/11/2009
These two have gotten very tight.
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My name is John Maloney and I'm the lucky guy who works at Tumblr as President. I live just outside NYC with my wonderful wife and two cool kids. I like startups, cycling, baseball, chess (thanks, Beck), and nice people (thanks, Claire). You can contact me at john at tumblr dot com.