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Tumblr President Steps Down
- bickfordb 14y agoDoes anyone know why he was ejected? From an external perspective Tumblr appears to be doing well.
- reneherse 14y agoI'm absolutely flabbergasted by the quality of writing. Speechless.
- revolvingcur 14y agoIt feels more like one side of an IM conversation than an essay, what with the missing periods and stilted spacing
- reneherse 14y agoI feel for the guy, for if you read between the lines of the latest news about Tumblr and one or two of his recent blog posts, he was obviously ousted by his board. So maybe it was a very difficult post to write. However, I'm still astounded that this quality of writing could come from a company president.
- spoiledtechie 14y agoDefinitely sounds like an ousting rather than wanting to step down.
- tg3 14y agoAnd based on the recent decision to start selling advertising, it sounds like it's related to his inability to produce a top-line, or perhaps his aversion to the prevailing winds at the board about the timeline and methods to produce revenue.
- mvkel 14y agoDo you think it was the board, or Karp?
- burgerbrain 14y agoThe inconsistent substitution of 'with' with 'w/' confuses me. Why do people even do that? On qwerty I know I find '/' to be much harder to strike than 'ith'.
- wahnfrieden 14y agoPeople do it because it's two fewer keystrokes.
- burgerbrain 14y agoIs it actually easier though?
- wahnfrieden 14y agoOn my keyboard at least, yeah.
- ianterrell 14y agoMy guess is that the missing periods at paragraph breaks indicate he wrote this on an iDevice. Space-space: period added. Enter-enter: no period added.
- burgerbrain 14y agoThat seems like a fairly sever oversight. Is there a reason for that behaviour?
- calloc 14y agoWhy an iDevice? Does Android add periods by default? (Space space doesn't on most Android devices, neither does Enter enter). He could have written this on any mobile computing platform. That being said, he did use short hand texting "speech" with his "w/".
- burgerbrain 14y agoPresumably if he was adding periods manually, he wouldn't have skipped them at the end of paragraphs.
- ajross 14y agoQuick test on a text field in chrome on my Galaxy Nexus shows the same behavior listed above: two spaces automatically ends the sentence with a period, but two carriage returns does not.
- pcrh 14y agoIt reads like a speech, rather than a letter.
- kmfrk 14y agoMaybe he had to write it on an iPad from the serenity of a first-class flight destined for a vacation. I refuse to believe this was something that a grown man spent time to write on a laptop or desktop. Or maybe that's what tumblelogging does to people's writing proficiency.
- mcmire 14y agoIf you look at his archive, his other posts (at least the few ones that have words) are that way too. I guess it's a standard thing with him.
- cheshire137 14y agoWhat's with the lack of periods?
- jbigelow76 14y agoHe's a graduate of the Jerry Yang School of Management.
- sabret00the 14y agoTo be fair, with Tumblr there was just no forward thinking plan. The first thing they should've done was consolidated content. Thus if someone uploads a picture that's already on the server, it should automatically become a reblog. This would've promoted greater content creation and thus promoted the harnessing of content creators. Everything else falls into place on that solid foundation. Promoted posts, inline advertising. It would've all been there for Tumblr to cultivate in a manner which users can embrace. Instead the idea seems to have started out as a micro-blogging system that's grown into a full-fledged blogging system but seems to lack real direction and instead seems to on the fly to meet the needs that suddenly develop from usage statistics and shoehorning.
- mvkel 14y agoLots of logistical issues with auto-reblogging. I could upload a picture of every color, flower, car, etc. and reap the reblogging rewards. I also fail to understand how this edge case feature would generate revenue. Ads? Greeeeeat.
- sabret00the 14y agoAds are a part of life. If you don't wanna see em, you like many others install adblock. For the people that don't, they create revenue. As for installing every colour, flower, car. That's fine and dandy but stuff like that would be flagged and dealt with.