Here’s a hidden feature that shipped in Monday’s Tumblr for iOS update. You can now prefix a URL in Mobile Safari with
tmto easily create a link post in the Tumblr app.If you’re into bookmarklets, you can save yourself the trouble of typing
tmand bookmark the following JavaScript instead:javascript:window.location='tm'+(window.location.href);
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Tumblr this morning. [h/t anne]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/558493610d6f78f397a2fb60b72f896b/tumblr_mn7izmBwOA1qzs5cqo1_400.gif)
NY under water.
The eye-catching swimming pool in Mumbai, India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of global warming.
It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool.
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Adults asked a bunch teens how they Internet. Here, a 15-year-old female tries to explain the appeal of tumblr. [via pew pdf]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/771a8b21fb1d68827e3164ef499eec9a/tumblr_mn5zvlyZDV1qzs5cqo1_500.png)
Adults asked a bunch teens how they Internet. Here, a 15-year-old female tries to explain the appeal of tumblr. [via pew pdf]
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WBA 5-5 Manchester United [Premier League] 19/05/2013
DDG was the quickest one to stand up and celebrate Kagawa’s opener in the 6th minute. What a reflex.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/221f4c0f0c4559db734d124ffce4d4e6/tumblr_mn39s0v8Az1qaorn7o1_500.gif)
WBA 5-5 Manchester United [Premier League] 19/05/2013
DDG was the quickest one to stand up and celebrate Kagawa’s opener in the 6th minute. What a reflex.
I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!
We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and…
Note to Yahoo: If you post images in text posts, they don’t look as good on the dashboard as straight-up image posts. You guys are new here, so we’ll give you some time to get used to things.
The Post is hardly alone among major media outlets in being owned by an entity which relies on the Federal Government for its continued profitability. NBC News and MSNBC were long owned by GE, and now by Comcast, both of which desperately need good relations with government officials for their profits. The same is true of CBS (owned by Viacom), ABC (owned by Disney), and CNN (owned by TimeWarner). For each of these large corporations, alienating federal government officials is about the worst possible move it could make — something of which all of its employees, including its media division employees, are well aware. But the Post Co.’s dependence is even more overwhelming than most.
How can a company which is almost wholly dependent upon staying in the good graces of the U.S. Government possibly be expected to serve as a journalistic “watchdog” over that same Government? The very idea is absurd.
The Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who uncovered the Iraq prison torture scandal and the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam, Seymour Hersh, said:
“All of the institutions we thought would protect us — particularly the press, but also the military, the bureaucracy, the Congress — they have failed. The courts … the jury’s not in yet on the courts. So all the things that we expect would normally carry us through didn’t. The biggest failure, I would argue, is the press, because that’s the most glaring….
Q: What can be done to fix the (media) situation?
[Long pause] You’d have to fire or execute ninety percent of the editors and executives. You’d actually have to start promoting people from the newsrooms to be editors who you didn’t think you could control. And they’re not going to do that.”
definethisnotion replied to your post: So I watched the ‘Get Lucky’ video for the first…
what kind of blasphemy?
you were saying something?
