Most, but not all, of these sites were created with Tumblr, a dead-simple two-year-old blogging tool that has swung open the publishing industry for anyone with a gift for snark and lots of extra hours to kill. Tumblr includes several stylish themes that obviate the need for designing anything yourself, and it comes prepackaged with templates for different kinds of posts—it makes your photos look different from your videos, which in turn look different from quotes you pull from other sites, etc. In other words, Tumblr lets you create a great-looking blog in two minutes flat.
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Very cool Slate article on single-topic blogs (This is why you’re fat, Look at this fucking hipster, etc.) I’ve always dug community-driven curated blogs like this (probably starting with Cute Overload back when the internet was invented). We’ll be launching some new community blogging tools this week that I’m really excited about. (via staff) |
