Really interesting interview with David Karp about how he works.

What Tumblr's doing to scale their service and grow the business side of things.

"It brings me no pleasure to write this post. I understand as badly I think the team run Tumblr, I do not wish any harm or upset on them. I do think that their complete lack of care for their product should be known, so others do not make the same mistake I have. Frustrated with them and their service, I have finally succumbed to moving my blog to WordPress."

Interesting footnote from Ben Brooks. "I do realize that my personal blog is on Tumblr still. I also still like Tumblr, but I think it is not the platform you should consider if writing is your thing."

"Imagine a web publishing platform that costs $10 per month.

$5 of that $10 goes to the platform company for the boring stuff.

The other $5 gets split evenly between the writers, photographers, videographers, designers, and other creative people you follow who also pay to use the platform, up to a maximum of — say — 20 followers, hand-picked by you."

Marshall Kirkpatick writes a great piece about what it means for the web that Tumblr went down for almost 24 hours.

Interview with Marco Arment about the tools he uses.

An export tool to get content from Tumblr into WordPress.

Interesting thoughts from Khoi Vinh about Tumblr and how it relates to identity.

Or yet another example of "It's not the tool stupid." The same can be accomplished with many tools, it's the mindset of a news organization that needs to change.

"Our tool is for serious web writers, the same way Photoshop is for serious graphics people, or a Nikon camera is for serious photographers. It's a truck, you have to learn how to drive it."

Marco Arment describes how he writes and manages his time.

"I suspect The Youth are publishing more than ever, but it’s coming in the form of Facebooking and Tumblring instead of maintaining a blog because the proprietary tools, unfortunately, have better readers right now than the open source ones."

"Tumblr has since rolled out all of the functions planned for Plus to users for free." - So, what exactly is their business model then?

"The problem with these types of statements is this: just as the goaltender who looks at his glove immediately after being scored on, blaming easy-to-use systems like Tumblr is propagating a scapegoat mentality."