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Now Live: The newly optimized Tumblr web view for iPad

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While browsing the Dashboard, in addition to clicking J and K to jump to the next and previous posts, you can now click L to like the current post!

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We’ll be rolling out Fan Mail — a new interblog messaging service — over the next few days for everyone.

You can send unlimited Fan Mail to the blogs you follow and customize each message.

You’ll see the new option appear in your Inbox, avatar menus, or in the top corner of the blogs you follow.

Have fun!

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Two days ago, you guys stepped up once again to show the world just how much we care about protecting the Internet. Together, we generated more than 140,000 calls to Senators, spent more than 4,200 hours on the phone with their staffers, and blacked out 650,000 of our blogs to make our point and inspire others to get involved. And what’s more, this was on top of the 90,000 calls we sent to members of the House of Representatives a month ago. Incredible.

It’s now becoming clear just how much impact our action is having. On January 18th, only 31 members of Congress opposed these bills. Just one day later, 101 members of Congress publicly stood with us in opposition. We are being heard.

And as of today, it looks like both the Senate PIPA and House SOPA bills have been shelved, for the moment. It seems pretty likely that the bills won’t pass as written—a big first win. We now hope that Internet companies, the creative community and the content industry join together to innovate and devise new partnerships to combat online piracy. We’re confident there are effective ways to do this without damaging the Internet or diminishing our freedoms.

You’ve made a big difference in keeping the Internet a safe and open place for creators. Thank you again.

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Name Pat Falco
Location Boston
First Post April 2010

Pat Falco is an artist, curator, rapper, and former college athlete from Boston. He helps run the Lincoln Arts Project, a vehicle to promote young and emerging artists from the Boston Area, and Pedro Romero Clothing. Pat has been named “Best Artist In The World” 7 of the past 10 years by his mother. He also runs a comic strip called The Strip Bar.

Also check out…

Cave to Canvas
Everything art history. From Lascaux to Toulouse-Lautrec, Raphael to Rodin, and Klimt to Kahlo.

Free Dolphin Rides
The travel journal of a 1977 Toyota Dolphin and its inhabitants.

Music Educators
A quickly growing think tank for music educators.

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Name Kate Spencer
Location Los Angeles
First Post December 2007

Kate Spencer is a comedian, writer, performer, and mother! She’s a writer/segment producer/correspondent for VH1 News, writer for HelloGiggles, and she performs and teaches improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The Huffington Post recently named her one of the 18 Funny Women You Should Be Following on Twitter. Kate once spent a lot of time traveling the country following the band Phish.

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OffTheBus Iowa
Citizen Journalism across Iowa brought to you by Patch and The Huffington Post.

PUMA Sailing
Just a crew of average guys who enjoy the occasional extreme sailing race around the world.

UX Rave
Interfaces, interactions, research, and raves.

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Holy crap — you guys are averaging 3.6 calls per second, and rising!

You’re making a real difference. Don’t let up. Spread the word.

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Introducing your new Activity page (and “Tumblarity”)

Two big things:

• We’ve added a new link on your Dashboard labeled Tumblarity.  This will take you to your new Activity page where you can see cumulative and trending stats about your activity on Tumblr.

• For the past few months we’ve been using an internal metric called “Tumblarity” to sort and filter content on the Search and Popular Content pages.  Tumblarity is derived from every blog’s activity and popularity across our network.  We’re getting ready to start using it to organize the boss new Tumblr directory (which should be done next week!).

  For the first time, you can view your Tumblarity on the Dashboard and Activity page.

Please ignore the fact that I’m less popular than fuckyeahparamore.

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Awesome. This happened last night. :)

Thanks for putting this together, Frankie!
You have an amazing collection of Jon Stewart GIFs.

And thank you, Daily Show!!

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Introducing: Photosets

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photosets are the future of books.  Enjoy!

New theme tags are available in the Theme Docs for customization.