December 2010
44 posts
“Overall, 3 pushes, 2 fails, and 7 wins. That’s not a bad year.”
– Predictions 2010: How Did I Do? - John Battelle’s Searchblog
Holiday Signal: Have a great break! →
My Top Records of 2010 →
Still Not Going To Do This Every Day: Tumbl, and... →
markcoatney:
One of the big challenges on Tumblr right now is the problem of discovery: How can we come up with better ways to help Tumblr users find great new, interesting things outside of the circle of the people they follow? One step toward solving this is our new curated tag pages. Right now, with…
Thinking Out Loud: What's Driving Groupon? →
Friday Signal: Straight to the Links →
We've (Still) Lost the Backlink, and I For One... →
Original Industry Standard Biz Plan
Stacey Reitz Foreman’s Photos - Mobile Uploads (92)
Thursday Signal: Get Yer Groupon →
drthomasho asked: I just read your "Signal, Curation, Discovery" post. In one of your replies to a comment, you referred to a message which you received inside Tumblr. I think I've enabled that feature on http://drthomasho.tumblr.com/ so could you send me a message so I can see how this feature works.
I am autoposting from http://DrThomasHo.amplify.com to Tumblr so I haven't done...
I am autoposting from http://DrThomasHo.amplify.com to Tumblr so I haven't done...
You Know What's Also Interesting About Tumblr
…is that you can’t see how many people folks follow, or how many people follow them. That is an interesting shift in social mores ….. compared say to Twitter. I wonder if Tumblr has thought about a widget that would allow people to declare that information publicly. For the early bloggers, that was the Feedburner widget. What do you think, @dick? (Of course, I’ve typed...
Am writing this post (rest of it) Thursday...
But here are the first few lines:
In the current issue of the New Yorker, columnist James Surowiecki, who I generally admire, gets it exactly wrong when it comes to Groupon.
He writes:
“ But it seems unlikely that it’s going to become a revolutionary company, along the lines of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Google. ….Groupon, by contrast, is a much more old-school business. It...
tylrco asked: Did you know that I wrote a post about you today? ha!
http://tylr.co/post/2328454832/professional-platonic-crush-2-john-battelle
http://tylr.co/post/2328454832/professional-platonic-crush-2-john-battelle
“Is it possible that, sometimes at least, some of the activity that enables us to...”
– Out of Our Brains - NYTimes.com
We Got A Dog.
Turns out, it really, really, really likes to pee on soft, warm carpet instead of wet, cold grass.
This is, embarrassingly, news to me.
Nude Breach: Americans And Privacy | The New... →
Always love Rosen’s stuff. Great pic too.
david-noel asked: John, welcome to Tumblr. Saw your post about missing a way to find interesting people to follow. A while ago, I compiled a list of best entrepreneurs and VCs to follow on Tumblr http://bit.ly/PXLCc
“(Tumblr is) sort of a rich media Twitter, but the stuff folks are curating seems...”
– http://battellemedia.com/archives/2010/12/signal_curation_discovery
Tumblr Search/Discover
Every time I start with something new, like Tumblr, or Twitter before that, or Facebook before that, I find that search and discovery is pretty broken. It’s a function of how fast the service is scaling, but man it’s a pain. For example, I know I want to follow Fred Wilson on Tumblr, but try finding him via the search bar up in the right. Nope. That’s easily fixed, is it coming,...
Thurs. Signal: It’s (Mostly) A Wikileaks Day →
Friday Signal: Let’s Get To It, Shall We? →
Tumblr
It’s about time I tried Tumblr out. I’d only be the 50 millionth or so, eh?
