Marissa Mayer’s billion-dollar bet is finally paying off. I’ve started to use Tumblr.
I happened to visit their HQ several months ago, for a Splunk user-group meeting, and felt like I was in a dorm at a well-endowed school. Though they had a lot of tasty stuff in their fridge, I really had no idea what I might use Tumblr for.
But when I wanted to create a quick site for pictures of NYC car crashes, the light-bell went off.
So feel free to check out Cars Do The Darndest Things.
(courtesy subwaysubculture)
This picture comes from a great blog I just found out about, Subway Subculture.
But having more than cool pics, the blog’s author Marta Apple, focuses on the humanity to be found pressed against us cheek by jowl, twice a day. As Walt Whitman wrote,
Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!
On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more; to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.I too lived — Brooklyn, of ample hills, was mine;
I too walk’d the streets of Manhattan Island, and bathed in the waters around it;
I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me,
In the day, among crowds of people, sometimes they came upon me,
In my walks home late at night, or as I lay in my bed, they came upon me.Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd,
Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river and the
bright flow, I was refresh’d,
Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift
current, I stood yet was hurried,
Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the
thick-stemm’d pipes of steamboats, I look’d.These, and all else, were to me the same as they are to you,
I loved well those cities, loved well the stately and rapid river,
The men and women I saw were all near to me,
Others the same — others who look back on me because I look’d forward to them.
