wnyc:
I’m reading Anthony DeRosa’s post again on how some traditional media companies refuse to enter into the link economy.
The practice is also prevalent here in Tumblr, it seems.
Photos and articles are sometimes posted sans attribution or links to the sources. Other Tumblr users, meanwhile, delete the link pertaining to the original tumblelog that posted the material.
No. If it’s on the web, it’s not yours. You can’t pull out the fair-use-clause card if you don’t attribute or try to claim something that is not yours. Remember Krip?
Fellow Tumblrers: This is important. I see this a lot, particularly when it comes to crediting photos. The rule is, give as much credit as you know, and if you can’t find enough information to credit the photo, quote, or article, DON’T POST IT. This isn’t something to be casual about.
This issue really bothers me. Yes, the photo posts are the majority of it but I see it happening in all kinds of posts: videos uploaded to Tumblr w/o links (Tumblr’s video upload is reserved for videos you’ve taken yourself, no?); text w/o block-quotes and sources, etc. It’s especially disheartening when it’s from “reputable” Tumblrs.
From a Tumblr editor’s perspective, I cannot promote a post without proper link to the source, per Tumblr’s Editor Guidelines, and I refuse to reblog one based on the same criteria. Please take the extra minute and credit.
We (and a lot of our friends, big and small) have fallen short of these standards on some (recent!) occasions, and we’ve been fortunate enough to benefit from the patient instruction of a few standout wardens in the Tumblr community. So the only thing we’d add is: When somebody doesn’t attribute, call them on it! Chances are they’ll do the right thing.
Memo and great reminder to all WNYC Tumblr contributors! (A good post to “like” to keep handy for reference.) -L.A.
This is a great point, and one that should be made frequently. If we miss an attribution somewhere, please let us know. - J.K.
Peter Steen Høgenhaug, suggesting we consider using something other than the ubiquitous link icon for inserting hypertext links in an application:
All in all, only 35.29% of the test participants understood the chain icon, and only 25% understood the globe icon. While we didn’t set a minimum for success, clearly, 25% is not good when it comes to usability. When being interviewed one of our participants asked:
‘Why not just write WWW? Everyone understands that!’
hope you know what that means! TUMBLRJUDGE IS BACK! I’m gonna be tumblrjudging s000 hard 2 make u all relevant and followed. first things first, unfortunately on my hiatus I lost some followers :( I need to gain them back so there will be more ppl 2 see my judges of u so you’ll get more followers!…
Why you might get tons of Tumblr likespam (and what to do about it)
A suggestion for Tumblr: Try to figure out a way so spammers can’t use this black-hat SEO (search engine optimization) technique. It’s dead simple to take advantage of, and as a result, some sites (such as our own) often drown in it. Today, for example, we got a ton of fake traffic from bots doing an obscure search on Google (see screenshots). Here’s a quick explanation as to what’s happening, as far as we can see:
- first Black hat SEO types hit Google and type in this specific phrase — “site:tumblr.com ‘liked this’” — a common phrase on Tumblr due to the way it handles likes.
- then Then, sketchy bot types will create hundreds or thousands of fake Tumblr accounts whose URLs forward to a sketchy-looking site not on Tumblr.
- result These sites end up getting hundreds or thousands of backlinks to their sketchy sites on Google — and all they had to do was like tons of people.
» But we have a temporary solution: Are you, like us, getting a lot of spam on your Tumblr? This is a likely reason. We’d like to offer a suggestion to solve the problem. If you know how to edit your theme in HTML, do a search for the phrase “{PostNotes}” and replace it with this: ”<!—googleoff: all—>{PostNotes}<!—googleon: all—>”. This prevents the notes from getting crawled by Google, which is good because it focuses your content, but bad, because any relevant content in reblogs won’t account for what shows up in search engines. This is really a problem Tumblr needs to look at — if they take out common phrases or make them invisible to search engines, everyone wins. But we hope this at least helps your sanity. It’ll help ours.
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DjRjE 2011 Summer Jumpoff - Mix Session 5/16 (1:03:33) *It may take a while to load.
Mix from the bar in SF, night was pretty coo.
Well you know the process for the download link:
Follow: http://jdlanor.tumblr.com or http://shuffledplaylist.tumblr.com
Reblog the post: DjRjE - Mix Session: 5/16
Contact AIM - r0naldrj for download link. (MUST BE A FOLLOWER)
Tracklist:
- Love Rance - UP (Clean)
- Travis Porter vs. DMX (Bring It Back/Get It on The Floor MASH)
- Notorious BIG - Hypnotize
- Dirty Money ft Drake - Loving You No More
- CSD - Back it Up And Dump it
- E-40 - Go Girl
- The Rej3ctz - Cat Daddy
- E-40 - My Beat Bang
- Dr. Dre vs Baby Boy Da Prince - Way I Live
- Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg. Kurupt. Nate Dogg - The Next Episode
- Ying Yang Twins - Salt Shaker
- Usher vs Jermaine Dupri - Yeah/Gotta Getcha
- Mann - Buzzin
- Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Get Low
- Snoop Dogg ft T-Pain - Boom
- Kurupt - Who Ride Wit Us
- Ty $ Feat Joe Moses - All Star
- Audio Push - Throw It Back
- Dr. Dre - My Prescription
- Black Eyed Peas - Just Can’t Get Enough
- Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
- Black Eyed Peas- Light Up The Night
- Pitbull (feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer & Demian Ngo) - Give Me Everything
- Rihanna - S&M
- Britney Spears - Till The World Ends
- Rihanna - Whos That Chick
- Nicki Minaj Ft Ester Dean - Super Bass
- The Black Eyed Peas - The Time
- Salt ‘n’ Pepa - Push It
- Ghost Town DJ’s - My Boo
- Blaque - 808
- Justin Timberlake and Beyonce - Until the End of Time (Uptempo->Slow)
DjRjE - Mix Session 91511 (35:10) | Download Link | Follow Dj Rj | 2011 Mixes
*WARNING VOLUME LEVELS WERE DISTORTED DURING THE RECORDING, I’M WORKING ON FIXING IT. BE CAREFUL AND PLAY IT AT THE PROPER VOLUME AT YOUR OWN RISK! I just needed to post something for now since I will be busy for my birthday (Sept. 17) this weekend.
- J Boog - Let’s Do It Again
- J. Cole - Work Out (Reggae Chop)
- Blue Scholars - Rani Mukerji
- Iamsu - Other Guys
- E-40 - Go Girl (Acapella Drop)
- The Rej3ctz - Cat Daddy
- Love Rance - UP (Clean)
- YG Feat. Tyga & Nipsey Hussle - Bitches Aint Shit
- E-40 - My Beat Bang [Intro - Clean]
- E-40 feat. Too Short - Show What You Workin’ Wit
- Turf Talk ft. E-40 - Slumper
- Furious - Take You Down
- Jimmy Roses - Who Rock Tha Party
- Too Short ft. E-40 - I Want Ur Girl
- StickUpKiddz - Turf Banger
- The Jacka ft. Andre Nickatina - Glamorous Lifestyle
- Big Sean ft. Wiz Khalifa & Chiddy - High
