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November 11, 2011 • 5,207 notes • marco

staff:

The Tumblr Backup app is ready for beta testing!
Download (Mac OS X, requires 10.5 or higher)
Unlike other publishing sites’ approach to backups, our goal was to create a useful copy of your blog’s content that can be viewed on any computer, burned to a CD, or hosted as an archive of static HTML files.
Wherever possible, we use simple file formats. Our backup structure is optimized for Mac OS X’s Spotlight for searching and Quick Look for browsing, and we’ll try to use the same structure and achieve the same benefits on other platforms.
Release notes:
Sorry, there’s no Windows version yet.
The output is minimally styled in a plain theme to ensure complete backups, zero external requirements, and a consistent data structure. Custom theme code is included in the backup as a separate file.
To view the backup in a browser, open the index.html file.
Photosets are not yet fully downloaded.
The following are not backed up:
Private tumblelogs
Submissions
Notes
Feed-imported posts
Audio files from reblogged posts

You can launch the app every few days and re-run the backup in the same place, and it effectively performs an incremental media backup: image and audio files are only re-downloaded if they don’t already exist in the target folder. Text content and post data are re-downloaded in full every time.
If you have private posts, be careful if you make the backup publicly available. Private posts are included in a private folder, and their images or audio files are included in the standard images and audio folders.
Are you a programmer? Each post’s XML data, as specified by our API, is embedded inside an easily-parsed-out HTML comment in each post’s HTML file, in case you want to do anything cool with it.

(via marco)

The Tumblr Backup app is ready for beta testing!

Download (Mac OS X, requires 10.5 or higher)

Unlike other publishing sites’ approach to backups, our goal was to create a useful copy of your blog’s content that can be viewed on any computer, burned to a CD, or hosted as an archive of static HTML files.

Wherever possible, we use simple file formats. Our backup structure is optimized for Mac OS X’s Spotlight for searching and Quick Look for browsing, and we’ll try to use the same structure and achieve the same benefits on other platforms.

Release notes:

Sorry, there’s no Windows version yet.

The output is minimally styled in a plain theme to ensure complete backups, zero external requirements, and a consistent data structure. Custom theme code is included in the backup as a separate file.

To view the backup in a browser, open the index.html file.

Photosets are not yet fully downloaded.

The following are not backed up:
Private tumblelogs

Submissions

Notes

Feed-imported posts

Audio files from reblogged posts

You can launch the app every few days and re-run the backup in the same place, and it effectively performs an incremental media backup: image and audio files are only re-downloaded if they don’t already exist in the target folder. Text content and post data are re-downloaded in full every time.

If you have private posts, be careful if you make the backup publicly available. Private posts are included in a private folder, and their images or audio files are included in the standard images and audio folders.

Are you a programmer? Each post’s XML data, as specified by our API, is embedded inside an easily-parsed-out HTML comment in each post’s HTML file, in case you want to do anything cool with it.

(via marco)

November 11, 2011 • 2,898 notes • sreetips

@SREE’S SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDE - a work in progress

sreetips:

==> SHORTCUT TO THIS PAGE: http://bit.ly/sreesoc <==

I am constantly updating, editing, adding to this list. Your feedback, suggestions and tips welcome, sree[at]sree.net or via @sree - mention this page.

FIVE LATEST ADDITIONS BELOW:

Added infographic resume links to job hunting/career management section

NEW SECTION: Google+ guides and articles

[CASE STUDY] Social media sharing increases website traffic +30%. Here’s why

Twitter For Newsrooms - the official guide: http://bit.ly/twitterfn

NEW SECTION: Social media and job hunting/career management - scroll down

BELOW: Handouts, tip sheets & reading material | My technology columns | Change your media diet | Social media and job hunting | LinkedIn guides | Facebook guides | Foursquare guides | Twitter guides and articles

==> Be sure to checkout my workshops - in-person and via webcast, including archived recordings: http://bit.ly/sreeworkshops

including:

NYC: Social Media One-Night Stand - ADVANCED social media workshop Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011… Details & registration

NEW JERSEY: Wed, Dec 7: Social Media Workshop in Parsipanny, NJ: http://bit.ly/sreenj11

PHOENIX: Thurs, Dec 8. Details coming to http://bit.ly/sreeworkshops

Testimonials from two Pulitzer Prize winners, @NickKristof of NYT & @MorinToon of MiamiHerald - follow ‘em!

==> I promise that my sessions, like my tweets, will most likely be: helpful * useful * informative * relevant * practical * actionable * timely * generous * credible * brief * entertaining * fun * occasionally funny

==>What social media can do for media pros and others:

find new ideas, trends and sources

connect with readers and viewers in new ways

bring eyeballs, traffic and attention to their work

help them create, craft and enhance their brands

If you’d like to be on my monthly e-mail with new tips, workshop listings, etc: sree[at]sree.net

Sree Sreenivasan
Columbia Journalism School Dean of Student Affairs
Contributing editor, DNAinfo.com: http://dnainfo.com
Twitter: @sree | http://twitter.com/sree
Facebook: http://facebook.com/sreetips
Site: Sree.net | SreeTips.com
Email: sree[at]sree.net | Google Voice: 678-379-SREE

==> Hope you will connect with me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sree and on my new Facebook page at http://facebook.com/SreeTips (I post only tech tips and job leads there) and on LinkedIn page at http://linkedin.com/in/sreenivasan (I accept invitations from people I know; people I should know; people I’d like to know).

HANDOUTS, TIP SHEETS & READING MATERIAL:

Syllabus and notes for my five-week Social-Media Skills for Journalists course at Columbia: http://bit.ly/socmediaskills (created with @AAdamGlenn and now also taught by @Lavrusik, @NYT_JenPreston @ZSeward and @TCPuente)

My Twitter Guide for Newbies & Skeptics: http://bit.ly/twitterideas

My Poynter column on the rise of social-media editors at news orgs around the country: http://bit.ly/sssocmed |

My Mashable essay, video and slides (co-written with then-student Vadim Lavrusik, @lavrusik, on traits of the future journalist: http://bit.ly/sreefuture

BBC tells news staff to embrace social media - or leave: http://bit.ly/9qyl5h

Mashable on how journalists are using social media today: http://bit.ly/bAId0q

15 reasons Twitter matters to news organizations, by @ARusbridger, editor-in-chief of @Guardian

@SteveButtry on why entrepreneurial journalists need to master social media

Useful stats about social media, from LukeW

25 amazing social-media infographics, collected by WebDoctus

@webjournalist & @facebookmedia’s presentation on intermediate social media

@lavrusik on how investigative journalism is prospering in the age of social media: http://on.mash.to/hvB0ZL

How to promote your offline events using social media: http://bit.ly/bxWCsQ

NYT’s Carol Vogel on museums pursue social-media engagement

Emarketer on older Facebook users catching up on LIKES

@Econsultancy’s collection of 16 social media guidelines of real orgs

CMO.com’s useful infographic explaining how marketing officers should look at various social media channels’ impact on customer communication; brand exposure; traffic; SEO

[CASE STUDY] BarnRaiser’s list of 34 case studies that prove the ROI of social media

[CASE STUDY] How Discovery reached 25m Likes on FB & 1.5m Twitter followers without gimmicks: http://bit.ly/eGcePn

[CASE STUDY] @Armano’s Four stages of social business, Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly

[CASE STUDY] Social media sharing increases website traffic +30%. Here’s why
NONPROFITS: @Mad_azn’s 5 social media mythbusters, nonprofit edition

@BLOchman’s 7 reasons why social media won’t work for your company

@ReadWriteWeb column: Why most Facebook marketing doesn’t work

DISCONNECTING: How to disconnect, a primer | The value of jumping off the social media train

MY COLUMNS ON THE CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE:
These essays, about the intersection of media and technology, are some of my weekly columns for DNAinfo.com, a Manhattan hyperlocal site I helped create with Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts (whose family just bought the Cubs and Wrigley Field) - be sure to check out the site on the Web, Facebook and Twitter:

Five Things I’ve Learned from Japan Quake | Egypt, Libya, etc * Six ways journalists (and others) can use Twitter better * Twitter Myths & Misconceptions * The Geolocation Wars * What a Non-journo Can Teach Journos About Social Media * Twitter Comes of Age. Again * Much Ado About Tweeting * Facebook’s Coming Privacy Changes * Please Stop Oversharing * Identity in the Age of Facebook * Why Profile Photos Matter * Lessons from a Week without Newspapers * Thoughts About Personal Branding * Thoughts About the iPad * Thoughts about Google TV * Thoughts on Six Months of DNAinfo.com | COLUMN EDITOR, @MPVdna

CHANGE YOUR MEDIA DIET (sites you should be reading):

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November 11, 2011 • 1,977 notes • msnerd

MS nerd: Rhythm

msnerd:

This is a little something about Microsoft’s 2012 through 2014 platform plan. As always Microsoft and I are equally unreliable.

—-

CES 2012
Win8 + WinStore beta
<ONM> CTP
Tango1 launch

MWC 2012
Tango2 SDK

MIX 2012
Win8 RC
<ONM> beta
Tango2 launch + Apollo announce
Kinect commercial SDK

E3 2012

November 11, 2011 • 4,894 notes • engineering

Tumblr Engineering: Introducing Tumblr's New API

engineering:

Welcome to the Tumblr API, v2!

Want to know what’s changed and why? Read on. Just want to dive in? Head on over to the API documentation, sign up for a key, and get hacking!

New Features

Features on Tumblr evolve rapidly. With the API, we have not attempted to provide complete feature…

November 11, 2011 • 3,987 notes • justinbee

But Seriously...: How to Update Facebook From Google+ (Without Using an Extension)

justinbee:

Facebook provides each user with a unique email that they can use to update their Facebook with. This way you can email a status update, picture, etc. without needing to access the site or the app, plus it works with any email address.

We can use that email address to cross post from Google+,…

November 11, 2011 • 8,294 notes • oatmeal

Dear Tumblr

oatmeal:

If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:

Please use it.

Please oh please.

-The Oatmeal

Update: Tumblr used the TumblBeasts! Check it out :D

November 11, 2011 • 4,467 notes • staff

staff:

Now testing: Ask Me

The new Ask feature lets your friends or readers ask questions that you can choose to answer on your blog.

You can enable it from the Community tab in your blog’s Customize area.

They even come with a bunch of new theme variables for designers to format them:
{block:AskEnabled}
    <a href="/ask">{AskLabel}</a>
{/block:AskEnabled}

{block:Answer}
    <div class="answer">
        <div class="question">{Question}</div>

        <span class="asker">
            <img src="{AskerPortraitURL-24}"/>
            {Asker}
        </span>

        <div class="answer">{Answer}</div>
    </div>
{/block:Answer}
Enjoy!

November 11, 2011 • 8,901 notes • youranonnews

Your Anon News: As some of you know we got banned from Google+ due to some of our...

youranonnews:

As some of you know we got banned from Google+ due to some of our content. What we didn’t know at the time is that we were just one of a handfull of Anonymous accounts that was silenced. This is the sad fact of what happens across the internet when you walk to a different beat of the drum….