Change

Change it’s a part of life

You find it in your pocket

Old gives way to new

Its about the times

People, places, faces in transition

Regeneration from one person to another

The seasons come and go

Growing in life and love

Coming into life and passing into death

It is a human thing

Technology getting better

Going from war into peace

Adapting and adopting

Its about you and its about me

Starting Over

A fellow blogger just went and deleted her whole blog and restarted from scratch. This person had her reasons for doing it and I can understand why. I have 493 followers currently and close to 5000 posts. With that being said should I do the same thing? Starting a new blog would mean losing a big number of my followers and deleting a lot of good posts. My blog is an extension of me. There is something to be said for preserving and building on your history while other times its good to have a clean slate. What to do, what to do,  what would you do?

Be Creative, Post Something Original

I challenge everyone to write something original, take a picture of something beautiful, shoot a funny video and post it. Be creative and share yourself. Tumblr is a platform for creativity. Do something unique. There are smart people here who can do amazing things. Show the world something dazzling. Your life is way more fascinating than you know.

Yahoo + Tumblr Is Reality - Today both David Karp and Marissa Mayer announced the marriage of Yahoo and Tumblr. This is happening and we can’t change that.  I have shared my reservations so perhaps to have some balance perhaps there needs to be some positives that can come from it. 1. Stability, keeping Tumblr going long term. Providing cash to power the site and keeping reducing downtime. 2. Yahoo could help creators of content get their message out to a wider audience. Perhaps a tie-in with the tagging system that Tumblr employs.  3. Search is Yahoo’s historic business and they still do it. Perhaps that search can make findinig blogs easier. Also Yahoo’s search could help users find graphics and gifs to post on their sites.  4. Yahoo could help Tumblr reach out to a wider audience than it has. Its popular and cool but not with everyone.  5. It can merge some technologies to improve the user experience. If Yahoo can get better at video and audio that could help Tumblr bloggers posts. Whatever it does, we cannot high tail it for other blogging services. Geocities closed in part because of mass defections. Keep on blogging. friends and Tumblr on! We also have to keep Yahoo accountable as best we can. The marriage can work, but it takes a lot of work. 
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Yahoo + Tumblr Is Reality - Today both David Karp and Marissa Mayer announced the marriage of Yahoo and Tumblr. This is happening and we can’t change that.  I have shared my reservations so perhaps to have some balance perhaps there needs to be some positives that can come from it. 1. Stability, keeping Tumblr going long term. Providing cash to power the site and keeping reducing downtime. 2. Yahoo could help creators of content get their message out to a wider audience. Perhaps a tie-in with the tagging system that Tumblr employs.  3. Search is Yahoo’s historic business and they still do it. Perhaps that search can make findinig blogs easier. Also Yahoo’s search could help users find graphics and gifs to post on their sites.  4. Yahoo could help Tumblr reach out to a wider audience than it has. Its popular and cool but not with everyone.  5. It can merge some technologies to improve the user experience. If Yahoo can get better at video and audio that could help Tumblr bloggers posts. Whatever it does, we cannot high tail it for other blogging services. Geocities closed in part because of mass defections. Keep on blogging. friends and Tumblr on! We also have to keep Yahoo accountable as best we can. The marriage can work, but it takes a lot of work. 
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Yahoo + Tumblr Is Reality - Today both David Karp and Marissa Mayer announced the marriage of Yahoo and Tumblr. This is happening and we can’t change that. 

I have shared my reservations so perhaps to have some balance perhaps there needs to be some positives that can come from it.

1. Stability, keeping Tumblr going long term. Providing cash to power the site and keeping reducing downtime.

2. Yahoo could help creators of content get their message out to a wider audience. Perhaps a tie-in with the tagging system that Tumblr employs. 

3. Search is Yahoo’s historic business and they still do it. Perhaps that search can make findinig blogs easier. Also Yahoo’s search could help users find graphics and gifs to post on their sites. 

4. Yahoo could help Tumblr reach out to a wider audience than it has. Its popular and cool but not with everyone. 

5. It can merge some technologies to improve the user experience. If Yahoo can get better at video and audio that could help Tumblr bloggers posts.

Whatever it does, we cannot high tail it for other blogging services. Geocities closed in part because of mass defections. Keep on blogging. friends and Tumblr on! We also have to keep Yahoo accountable as best we can. The marriage can work, but it takes a lot of work. 

The Deal Is Done - Yahoo agrees to purchase Tumblr for $1.1 Billion. Now we wait to see what will happen. I hope this will give new life to Tumblr but I still have my doubts as I have mentioned previously. Friends, be sure to keep on blogging, keep on being creative, keep on being original. Yahoo might have given us a chance to blog another day and beyond.
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The Deal Is Done - Yahoo agrees to purchase Tumblr for $1.1 Billion. Now we wait to see what will happen. I hope this will give new life to Tumblr but I still have my doubts as I have mentioned previously. Friends, be sure to keep on blogging, keep on being creative, keep on being original. Yahoo might have given us a chance to blog another day and beyond.
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The Deal Is Done - Yahoo agrees to purchase Tumblr for $1.1 Billion. Now we wait to see what will happen. I hope this will give new life to Tumblr but I still have my doubts as I have mentioned previously.

Friends, be sure to keep on blogging, keep on being creative, keep on being original. Yahoo might have given us a chance to blog another day and beyond.

Opinion: Yahoo and Tumblr, Questions Linger, Not Convinced

I am not crazy about Yahoo’s proposed buy of Tumblr. It has been documented that past purchases of other web services have not worked out well for users. Geocities and Delicious are both prime examples. Tumblr could meet the same fate which would be devastating for those who have put their heart and soul into their blogs. Many people have built their whole web identity on this platform. 

Is Marissa Mayer different than previous leadership, I don’t know. She is very aggressive and expects results. Coming from Google Mayer has much to prove to Yahoo’s shareholders and the tech community. 

David Karp would continue to lead Tumblr but would report to Mayer and he would have to produce. I also hear that financially money is not coming in fast enough to keep Tumblr afloat. It’s going to be a situation where there is going to need cash to stay alive. So we are in a quandry.

I am reluctant to endorse the move. No I am not a shareholder but I am a user and I don’t know if our blogs would have to carry ads on them. Currently they don’t. I hate the idea of advertising on our posts like Wordpress.com attaches to their users. Would Yahoo censor or restrict content, that is the billion dollar question for a lot of people. 

If Yahoo is not careful, there will be a mass exodus of bloggers if they don’t respect us and assure us we can keep using Tumblr in the way we have become accustomed to. It could be Yahoo would spend a lot of money and get nothing in return.

So we now come to a meeting being held tomorrow by Yahoo’s board that will make a very important decision. We will have to stay tuned for breaking news. I hate its come to this but we might have to get used to the idea. Lets hang on until we see what happens.

Keep on blogging like there is no tomorrow.

Yahoo Wants Tumblr…I Would Be Concerned

Reports across the Web say that Yahoo wants to buy Tumblr. Friends this is a serious thing. Yahoo had a blogging platform called 360 a number of years ago but shut it down for business reasons. It bought Geocities the Web page building platform just to shut it down a few years ago. 

If you have built a presence on Tumblr it should concern you. Yahoo has an aggressive CEO who will want to use this blogging platform for advertising and reaching the 18-35 age group it needs to become relevant again. Who knows what would happen if this buyout takes place. I am not sure it would be a good thing for us. 

The deal would be worth $1 billion so it would be hard for David Karp and team to refuse. We would see Tumblr change and I am not sure for the better. You could also see other suitors like Facebook and Google swoop in and undermine Yahoo’s bid. My advice is to stay tuned and see what happens.