Lessons from a 7 year Tumblr Veteran

Who am I?

• @naum
• Tumblr user #752
  • azspot.net
  • azplace.net
  • azcode.tumblr.com

People of the Bookmarklet

The Long and Short of It

Let a 1,000 Tumblrs Bloom

• bindersfullofwomen
• ronsays
• danharmon
• greendale-confessions
• mcfrankenstein.tumblr.com

Queue Love

Visitors via the Dashboard Lights

The Fellowship of Tumblrs

• Fan email and messages
• Hate reblogging
• RL meetups

The Power of Reblog

The Politics of Tumblr

Category Editors

Followship Dips and Spikes

• Theological
• Torture
• Abortion
• Naomi Wolf article on Julian Assange
• Trayvon Martin

The Sting of the Followership

Climate of Administrative Tool Change

Recent Examples

• Generated HTML tartiness
• Broken blockquote rendering
• Bookmarklet now no longer accomodates Markdown syntax

Ever Decreasing Influence of Core Users

My early Tumblr feature requests met with almost 100% adoption! (azspot.net/post/11291/tumblr-feature-requests)

And again, here (azspot.net/post/25709233/tumblr-notes).

I have a very rudimentary understanding of how Tumblr actually works these days… ~David Karp

Post it Forward

The End

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