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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
A mere two minutes after finding a Twitter feed coincidence, here this is!
Baumgartner should try the toast thing.
In “De Profundis,” [Oscar Wilde] wrote, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” In the practices of commonplacing and reblogging, this last phrase has literally become true: their passions a reblog.
Shaj Matthew, Tumblr as a Commonplace Book (via thebronzemedal)
(You might think my reblogging this is ironic, but I think the article gives an interesting take on what this Tumblr stuff is all about—without coming down on it.)
And then I did it. Christmas colour update.
How often do people read Tumblrs as separate blogs, though, as opposed to just cruising the Dashboard? I know I tend towards the latter with most of my Tumblin’ time.
The double-ended arrow probably wasn’t necessary, but it’s been a long time since I drew one so I did it.
I don’t know who this Joan Didion person is, but folks gots opinions about her.
Imagine you’re following someone on Tumblr (I know, it’s hard to picture). We’ll call them jakethejake. And jakethejake reblogs really cool images from another Tumblog—for the purposes of this hypothetical, we’ll call it PicsYouLike. You start to notice that jakethejake reblogs PicsYouLike with a degree of regularity. Not all the time or anything, but frequently enough that you notice.
You like these pictures—PicsYouLike is aptly named, hypothetically speaking. You click the little heart, because that’s what you do on Tumblr, and you start to reblog jakethejake’s reblogs, because that’s what you do on Tumblr.
My question is this: Do you eventually start following PicsYouLike directly, or just reblog the images that jakethejake reblogs?
I hope this isn’t getting too confusing. I’m just having Thoughts about the connectivity of Tumblr and the (inter)webs we create for ourselves and for others. I’m wondering if there is a certain value to reblogging these cool images only when they’ve been filtered through jakethejake’s vetting process. When you follow PicsYouLike, do you lose a sort of connection to jakethejake? If you don’t follow PicsYouLike, are you defining your tastes by jakethejake’s standards? And isn’t that what we’re all doing anyway?
I don’t know! Lots of thoughts. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have two new blog names to (hopefully) claim as my own.
this keep popping in my dash and I love it .LOL
this is why I love tumblr.
I know that God and Jesus are the same in a lot of ways, but they are also hella different in a lot of ways.
Namely, Jesus never smote a damn thing. How many cities did he wipe out for pissing Him off? When did Jesus ever go Old Testament on someone’s ass?
Oh, right. He wasn’t even AROUND for the Old Testament.
Next question.
