Tumblr's Storyboard

 http://storyboard.tumblr.com/

Tumblr Launches ‘Storyboard’ to Feature Creativity 

Tumblr, the popular blogging platform, today launched a blog called Storyboard that will feature content creators who use Tumblr blogs. The blog will feature interviews and a behind-the-scenes look at the people behind compelling Tumblr blog content.

The announcement came on the Tumblr Editorial blog, where Chris Mohney, Editor and Chief at Tumblr, outlined what the Storyboard blog is all about. From the blog post:

We’re excited to announce the official launch of Storyboard, our new hub for in-depth conversations with Tumblr’s creative community. We’ll be posting regular features on creators working in and around Tumblr’s massively diverse cosmos — writers, musicians, animators, scientists, artists, archivists, chefs, comedians, or anyone else with a great story to tell. Today we’re talking about Michael Stipe, the New York Times, Afghanistan, and the design mechanics of the Tumblr Dashboard.

Mohney stated that Tumblr will publish stories and story ideas for the Storyboard blog from the Tumblr community itself. Stories posted to Tumblr with the accompanying hash tag #storyboard will be considered by Tumblr editors. “And if your story really works, we’ll ask to expand it for publication on Storyboard itself,” said Mohney.

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Article from: http://www.webpronews.com/tumblr-launches-storyboard-to-feature-creativity-2012-05 (May, 7th, 2012)

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According to this article, Tumblr made new blog service called 'Storyboard.' last May. They still are offering this service. Storyboard is kind like a assembly of lots of magazines and newspapers. Actually, they had partnership with other press companies such as Time.com, MTV, WNYC, etc. As a result, Storyboard shows lots of Tumblr highlighting posts including photo, video, news, report and so on so you can check all the posts in one page through 'Storyboard.' It is really convenient service I think. I feel like I'm reading a news paper when I use Storyboard of Tumblr.

If you click one of the posts of Storyboard, you can read an aritcle which is related to that posts and photos, videos as well. You can also click 'Like' those posts and reblog to your Tumblr. 

This is actual Storyboard page, as you can see in this picture, you can read an article about those features and see the pictures as well.

  Take a look this video that shows the features and intention of Storyboard. Video from: storyboard.tumblr.com    

Tumblr Recommendation

Hello, today I'd like to recommend some nice Tumblr pages which I've been following.

I'm actually really interested in music and photograph, maybe most of Tumblr pages are about it.

However, there are also lots of nice Tumblr pages about various concepts and interest except those Tumblrs, 

so you'd better find out your own nice Tumblr!

1. Music History in Gifs

http://musichistoryingifs.com/

This tumblr shows remarkable and iconic moments of music in Gif images.

As you know, Gif is animated image with lots of dots.

This Tumblr is created by Joshua Carrafa who is a guitarist in Brooklyn-based band Old Monk.

In addition to Gif images, he always posts some comment about that image.

I brought some Gif images from this Tumblr.

2012.  Psy releases his music video for Gangnam Style.  Never before has an artist so foreign been able to make such a huge impact with one crazy music video.  And this video is definitely crazy.  Also great.

1997.  Radiohead releases OK Computer, and it goes on to become one of the mostcritically acclaimed records of all time.  They released a couple of great videos, and a guy plays ping pong with an angel.  Also a guy cuts his own limbs off for some reason.

2. The World of a Graphic Designer

http://theworldofagraphicdesigner.tumblr.com/

This Tumblr's tag line is 'Everything you need to know about the life of a graphic designer.' That sentence explains that this Tumblr has variety of nice sources for designer.

However, If you are not a graphic designer you don't have to be disappointed.

This Tumblr will inspire you with lots of photos and graphics when you need 'Creativity.'

3. Hi, I'm Liz
http://lizclimo.tumblr.com/

This Tumblr is run by Liz Climo who is an animator working on 'The Simpson'.

She usually posts her own animation and cartoon with the cute animal characters and stories.

Her cartoon is quite short, but it's really adorable and cute though.

Some cartoons are reminded me of heart-warming stories.

Those cartoons are her works. You can see lots of cartoons by visting her Tumblr.

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4. People Vs. Place

http://peoplevsplaces.tumblr.com/

This Tumblr is photography Tumblr which is a collaboration with two photographers Timothy Burkhart and Stephanie Bassos.

The special thing in this Tumblr is that one photographer exposes a full roll of film of only “people,” and the other reloads the same film again to imprint only “places” to the same roll.

So, the result photos are extremely special and dreamlike.

Here are their artworks.

How to spot a Tumblr user

I found this image from http://www.flowtown.com/blog/how-to-spot-a-tumblr-user

This image is related to the documentary about Tumblr I posted previously.

I was surprise at the percentage of young users!

I thought age between 18~24 people use Tumblr over 50%. I don't know why!

Anyway, LA is the most popular Tumblr city!

Like the documentary, this image is also showing the characteristics of Tumblr exaggeratingly, but it is also interesting I think.

If you are using Tumblr or have used before, you might understand this image better :)

Tumblr, the documentary

Tumblr, The Documentary

Video from: http://vimeo.com/1181715
Filmed by: David Seger

"Who uses David Karp's microblogging site Tumblr? To us, they are trustafarians and their hangers-on — men with beards and thick glasses, girls with rainbow leggings and bangs. They are Sanfrooklyn's creative types and those who dress like them. Or — according to David Seger's Tumblr: the documentary, embedded below — they are "the dumbest babies of them all." We take exception to this as a Tumblista ourself, though we can't deny a sad correlation between our self-worth and the number of those who follow us."  from http://gawker.com/5017182/tumblr-the-documentary

Hi, I found this 'Fake' documentary about Tumblr.
Those people seem to talk about Tumblr earnestly, but they are just making fun of Tumblr and Tumblr users.
As you can read above quotation, usually people think TYPICAL types of people are using Tumblr.
Maybe, this fake documentary wanted to have a dig at Tumblr.
At first, I was fooled by two fake CEOs of Tumblr! I thought they were real CEOs but they were not.
Anyway, it is quite hilarious to watch and well-made haha enjoy it.

Official Tumblr List

 OFFICIAL TUMBLR LIST

     Nowadays, many celebrities, politicians and artists are using social network service (SNS) to promote and announce their new achievment and activity. However, some of them are using SNS just for recording their daily life like other normal peopls do. Usually, most of them used Facebook and Twitter but, these days they also opened the official Tumblr pages.

     I found some official Tumblr page of celebrities, politicians, singers, etc. I don't think there are official Tumblr page for Korean celebrities. Hope you can enjoy this and why don't you follow your favorite celebrities?

1. Britney Spears

britneyspears.tumblr.com/

I'm not sure she is doing her Tumblr by herself but, her tumblr is quite active.

It usually reblogs other's post about Britney and her activity and announce her new activity as well.

2. Beyonce

http://iam.beyonce.com/

Unlike Britney's Tumblr, Beyonce's Tumblr is more private.

She usually posts her and her family's private pictures.

If you enter her Tumblr, you can see her daughter's picture too :)

3. Barack Obama

http://barackobama.tumblr.com/

This is Obama's official Tumblr. I think this tumblr is run by government now.

However, when he took the political campaign a few months ago, he used the Tumblr to promote his election.

Now, his Tumblr usually updates his policy, people's opinion, photos, news, etc.

4. Docter Who (British Drama)

http://doctorwho.tumblr.com/

This Tumblr is official Tumblr of British Drama 'Docter Who'. There are also many official Tumblrs for TV shows and broadcast stations all over the world.

Through this Tumblr, you can check the synopsis and chracters also see the fan art of Docter Who.

If you are interested in official Tumblr,

why don't you find your favorite stars or shows Tumblr?

Did Tumblr become top 10 U.S. web site?

Tumblr NOT in the 10 U.S. most popular web sites list.

Nov. 27. 2012

Tumblr NOT in top 10 U.S. most popular website list

An excited and overwhelmed David Karp announced to his staff at Tumblr today that the microblogging service has achieved a spot among the top ten sites in the U.S., but he was mistaken.

In the five years since its launch, Tumblr has amassed an impressive global monthly audience of almost 170 million people, according to new data from web measurement company Quantcast.

In the U.S. alone, 61.3 million people visit the site every month, posting and viewing photos, text, quotes and all manner of content.

In a post on Tumblr's staff blog, CEO David Karp proclaims a milestone has been reached and that the site has entered into the top 10 most trafficked sites in the U.S.

"Hey everyone! I have an exciting and slightly overwhelming milestone to share with you. Tumblr has broken into the Top 10 sites in the U.S., and now has a worldwide audience of 170 million people."

↑ I captured this image Tumblr staffs' tumblr.

However, the placement by Quantcast at number nine is for traffic to the entire Tumblr 'network' of blogs and not for the website itself. Tumblr's site actually sits at number 15 in the top U.S. sites list.

Now, Tumblr is lanked in 14th among U.S. web sites list.

David Karp (Tumblr CEO) might realize his mistake, so he posted again about this lank.

David’s Log:

“ Scratch that [the earlier post]: I anxiously published this post this morning, not sure if we would hold on to the #10 spot when the rankings refreshed this afternoon.

Turns out the holiday pushed us to #9!  "

Article from: http://www.bizreport.com/2012/11/tumblr-not-in-top-10-us-most-popular-website-list.html#

Tumblr hit by cyber worm

Tumblr hit by cyber worm from group engaged in 'anti-blogging' campaign

Tumblr, the micro-blogging platform that hosts more than 83 million blogs, was hit by a cyber worm that filled up user dashboards with an infectious post by a trolling group.

A group called the Gay Nigger Association of America, which says it is engaged in an "anti-blogging" campaign, took responsibility for the attack on Monday. The cyber worm infected major Tumblr accounts including those of USA Today, The Verge and Entertainment Weekly.

(↑ The Tumblr page of Entertainment Weekly, after the attentions of the GNAA.)

The infected post began with "Dearest 'Tumblr' users" and continued into a passionate rant against the platform and what it called its "emo" users. The post read: "This is in response to the seemingly pandemic growth and world-wide propagation of the most fucking worthless, contrived, bourgeoisie, self-congratulating and decadent bullshit the internet ever had the fortune of facilitating."

Tumblr advised anyone who has viewed the post to immediately log out of all browsers that may be using Tumblr, and said it was working with its engineers to "remedy the situation as swiftly as possible".

A GNAA spokesman, Leon Kaiser, said in an email: 

"This was just another part of our "anti-blogging" campaign. GNAA's stance on blogging in general has always been a negative one: in short, blogging is lowering journalistic standards to the point where the number of friends a murderer has on Facebook has become news.
Tumblr is a blogging website whose employees we have found, time and time again, to put the safety of their users second to their revenue. Instead of hiring competent, dedicated staff, they hire part-time programmers who can't even defend against the most basic of security issues, such as XSS. I mean, for chrissake, they don't even throttle (or the threshold is ridiculously high) the number of posts per minute a user is allowed to make! Blogging services everywhere need to step up and hire people who know what they're doing."

In 2007, the GNAA hacked the Obama campaign's social network and created a parody site that claimed Jewish people were behind 9/11, which CNN erroneously reported as real. GNAA recently convinced several media outlets that people were organizing looting on Twitter during hurricane Sandy with the hashtag #Sandylootcrew. In November, the group launched an attack on male My Little Pony fans with a "War on Bronies".

A GNAA spokesperson told Gawker's Adrian Chen that the War on Bronies was part of their greater War on Blogs. The spokesperson also said that no Tumblr accounts were compromised by the worm, which "was purely a spam thing", and claimed to have contacted Tumblr several weeks ago about the security gap that allowed the GNAA to launch the attack. The spokesperson said the group had not heard back from the site.

Article from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/03/tumblr-cyber-worm-anti-blogging

The damage was actually minimal but, this offending post can be shown in Tumblr's editor and deleting all the posts. 

After this spreading cyber worm,

Tumblr posted tweet about resolving their damage from cyber worm.

However, a lot of users of Tumblr still are worrying about the safety and reliability of Tumblr service.

There have been many cases such as phishing attack, hacking in Tumblr. 

Tumblr should make an effort to prevent those kinds of problem.

How to set the theme of Tumblr

I mentioned already that I will post about theme of Tumblr more specifically.

Now, I'm going to explain how to set your Tumblr theme!

1. Click the setting button. 

2. Click your Tumblr's name then you can see that page in right side.

(Theme)

and click the 'Customize' button under the theme.

3. Click the 'Themes' button.

Image on the bottom is my Tumblr theme so, you may not see any images if you don't set

the theme.

4. Then you can choose your theme.

Tumblr is offering various themes but, you might pay on some themes.

There are nice themes in free themes as well :)

After choosing theme, you should click 'Use' button on the top.

5. We are almost most done! 

Did you choose your theme? I chose 'Royal Cameleon' theme.

It's free theme but I chose it because I liked those color mix.

And, let's scroll down. It's time to customize your theme.

You can change your title of Tumblr and write description

also you can change the colors of theme.

Also, you if you scroll down more, you can set up how many posts will be shown

in your Tumblr :)

D.O.N.E!

PLEASE, Don't forget to click 'SAVE' button :)

How to set the Tumblr

Hi guys! :D Did you check the previous post?

I'm sure all of you guys succeeded in joining the Tumblr!

It's time to go to the next step! Today, I'm going to post about setting your Tumblr.

Actually, It is really basic setting so I will also post about specific and complicated setting next time!

1. First, you should log onto Tumblr! 

Then, you can see this button on the top. Click it! (Setting button)

2. And there are some menus on the left side!

You can first click the account button.

In this page, you can set up your account.

You can change you e-mail address and password.

In edit posts using is showing the tool that you are going to use when you post, but 

It's okay to leave it as it is.

Tumblr is offering some other languages but, unfortunately, they are not offering Korean.

After finishing all settings, you should click 'Save' button on the upper-right side.

3. Next! you can click the 'Dashboard' button!

Now, you can set up your dashboard.

This is dashboard setting page.

You can read all the explanation under the words but, especially,

in 'Browse tag pages in Safe Mode' If you don't check this button You may see some adults post without any filtering.

4. E-mail setting

This is really simple, If you want to get new notification from Tumblr

you should check 'Keep me updated with new~~~' button! and Save.

5. Blog Setting!

Finally, I think this is most important part!

First, you should click the lowest button on the left side!

Because you haven't changed your profile pictures, it might be slightly different with mine.

OK, I will explain in order!

At first, If you click 'Change Avatar' You can change your profile picture!

Because I already changed my profile picture, so this page shows my profile picture.

URL: You can change URL of your Tumblr.

Theme: You can change the theme of your Tumblr.

I will post about various theme of Tumblr more speicifc later.

If you want to change your theme, you can click the 'Customize' button.

Replies: It's about the reply of your Tumblr.

Reply function is newly updated function!

Ask: It is one of the special features of Tumblr.

It is called 'Ask' but this function is similar with 'Message' function in Facebook.

You can be questioned by other people.

Submissions: If you check this button, other people can post on your Tumblr.

Queue: It is also new function of Tumblr. 

It's kind of uploading your post by subscription.

I know it may sound strange, but it is quite convenient function.

By using Quene function, Tumblr will upload lots of your posts automatically on a date you already set.

Facebook: Yes, you can share your posts with your Facebook.

Twitter: Same with Facebook! Your Twitter followers can read your Tumblr on the Twitter.

Posts by E-mail: You can post by e-mail.

RSS Feeds: We all knew about RSS last class but, Tumblr don't offer RSS address.

Directory: It is important function If you want to make your Tumblr popular.

By clicking the first button, many search engine sites will index your blog and

NSFW, If you check this button, your blog can contain adults post.

That's all! Please don't forget to click the SAVE button!

As I mentioned above, It was a basic setting of your Tumblr.

I'm going to post about specific setting such as Quene, Theme function later on.

Hope you enjoy your Tumblr!

All the images are captured by me.

How to join Tumblr

How to use Tumblr?

If you 'just' want to see pics and other's post on Tumblr

you don't need to join Tumblr because, you can just see other's post without join.

However, If you want to have your own Tumblr page (to upload posts) and follow other's Tumblr you should join the Tumblr.

1. This is register page of Tumblr.

you can check the http://tumblr.com and click the sign up button in the upper-right side.

and fill in this blanks like when you join other web site.

After that, Tumblr will send you verification email to written e-mail address.

If you check that email and click the check button, that's it :)

2. Interface

After checking the verification mail and log onto Tumblr, 

You can see this page. It is a dashboard of Tumblr. (Actually, this is my dashboard!)

I think you are familiar with 'dashboard' already, because it is like a timeline in Facebook.

Through the dashboard, you can check the posts of other people who you are following, and also check the number of you post and followers as well.

And can you see this bar in the top of dashboard?

I think it is one of the good features of Tumblr.

You can make a post based on various kinds of sources.

You can click any button which fits your post.

Then, how about making the first post of your Tumblr from now on?

* I captured the every screen shots. 

Why Tumblr?

So, why many people are using Tumblr?

Here are the key features of Tumblr.

This image is from http://www.tumblr.com/why-tumblr

Did you check every feature of Tumblr?

I found a post about features of Tumblr. You can also check this out.

I wonder you are getting interested in Tumblr!? ^_^

(1) Mobile posting - Post text, photos, MP3s, or videos (if you have Vimeo enabled) directly from your mobile phone. You can use the Subject line to attach a caption to photos. Remember that anyone can use this address, so keep it private. If you need to, you can reset this address.

(2) Mobile browsing - To browse your tumblelog on a phone or PDA, just add “/mobile” to the URL

(3) Tumblet widget – Mac users, install the Tumblet Dashboard Widget to quickly post text blurbs from your desktop. Mac OS 10.4 or newer required.

(4) Post via Instant Message – To post to Tumblr through AOL Instant Messenger,
just add TumblrBot to your buddy list.

(5) Embed your tumblelog - If you want to incorporate your tumblelog on a web page other than Tumblr, you can use the following code to embed your posts as basic HTML that you can skin with CSS

(6) Bookmarklet – Drag the button to your Bookmarks Bar to quickly post content to your tumblelog.

(7) Feeds (cannot be used as spammer and splogger tools) – Feeds let you actively import your posts from up to five other sites. You may only import content you create. If you import other people’s content, your account will be suspended. For more information on feeds, check out their help section.

(8) “Public” or Private” groups – A full-featured tumblelog with the special ability to invite others to post. Once invited, members share full control.

(9) Domains – Use a custom domain name with Tumblr and use Google Analytics to measure your traffic.

(10) Several customizable themes are available but, if you prefer you can create a custom HTML theme for your tumblelog.

(11) Build your own apps with the Tumblr API.

(12) Clear terms of service, content and privacy policies

This post is from http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/02/29/twelve-tumblr-blog-features/