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lacma: Two years ago, we launched an experiment: an online...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:34:36 +0300

Two years ago, we launched an experiment: an online image library where we made 2,000 high-resolution images of artworks that the museum deemed to be in the public domain available for download without any restrictions. This week, we’ve exceeded ourselves with the launch of our new collections website, giving away ten times the number of images we offered in the initial image library. Nearly 20,000 high-quality images of art from our collection are available to search, download, and use as you see fit.

What Do Cats Have to Do With It? Welcome to Our New Collections Website

Dear Tumblr-verse,

Merry Christmas: we just gave you 20,000 high-resolution images, for free. Now we have just one question: what are you going to do with them?

jhn brssndn: This Thing of Theirs

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:16:00 +0300

jhn brssndn: This Thing of Theirs:

jhnbrssndn:

Of course outrage at the acquisition is misplaced. Of course it misses the point. Even many of the teens whom the investing classes now believe power Tumblr are getting used to the playbook of internet monetization. Most of us knew as soon as we signed up (7 May 2007, in my case) that This Day would come. The pronouncements from David Karp and other Tumblr bigwigs disdaining advertising, pooh-poohing the idea that they were just biding their time until the call came from the Valley, were always so much nonsense.

Personally, I’d been parting ways with Tumblr for some time anyway. Its mobile platforms seem rooted in 2007-8, and have never matched the desktop browser for ease of putting material up. I really have difficulty with a blogging platform that shoves a giant ad for The Hangover III in my face every time I fire it up.

While it sticks in my throat to see an already wealthy young man get a whole new fortune on the back of the content that you and I have been dutifully uploading these past six or seven years, at least now Tumblr can stop being a rich kid’s pet project. As I said years ago:

Either they are owners/operators of a proper blogging platform with legal, transparent and enforceable terms of service; or they are kids who are running a cool club: they come in, they hang out with the punters, and they bar people based upon whether they like the cut of a person’s jib.

And maybe, following the Facebook IPO, the Instagram deal, and now this, we can think more clearly and creatively about the economics of the social web. Is the ability to post photos, quotes, music and video, original articles, important to you? How and why is it important? Is the entertainment that it provides valuable to you? Is it so valuable that you are happy for a succession of billionaires to be born on the back of it?

Or would you, as others have suggested, prefer to pay a few bucks a month to retain ownership of your content? Or - here’s a thing - how about a model where a David Karp rewards users with a share of the business, so that you get a sliver of that $1.1 billion?

Yumblr!

A raging sea Dwarfs Seaham Lighthouse in County Durham in...

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:06:24 +0300

A raging sea Dwarfs Seaham Lighthouse in County Durham in England, with 100ft waves after a cold front moved down from the north bringing freezing temperatures to the North of England.

I can hear the sound of it. Yes some photographs are that strong.

Reblog If You Ever Used One Of These or Just Know What It's Called

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:26:11 +0300

mech-tech:

reblogthings:

that is a sad number of reblogs

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:30:00 +0300

Photo

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:23:53 +0300

"I wish you’d call me instead of leaving me voicemails."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:06:00 +0300

“I wish you’d call me instead of leaving me voicemails.”

- A client who doesn’t understand that they need to answer their phone for that to work.

(via clientsfromhell)

expectsomuch: Sailing Into the Sun 8/24/12

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:32:47 +0300

expectsomuch:

Sailing Into the Sun 8/24/12

Is it just me or you guys also excited about up coming Black Ops...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:44:00 +0300

Is it just me or you guys also excited about up coming Black Ops 2 DLC, Mob of The Dead?
Probably it will be published by the end of weekday for pc by Steam. Not sure just a guess.

edit: According to $$ agreements between Micro$oft and Activi$ion PC users will have it on May15-16. Although Xbox kids got it yesterday.