So the Gawker sites went to tumblr as their backups. This is...this is kinda laughable, honestly. I'm pretty sure they can't meet their commitments to their advertisers with a platform so different from their normal one, and one chosen so late.
They're ridiculously slow, and it's not like Tumblr is known for its stellar uptime itself. There's no easy way to do what many of the stalwarts want to do--discuss the articles with the other stalwarts. I'm not even seeing that their formats make it easy to reblog, and they haven't (thankfully) instituted the Disqus commenting system.
Right now, when I click on anything, I get the spinning wheel and a State Farm interstitial. Maybe they are making their commitments after all.
Their business model continues to amaze and amuse.
I get ads saying not to vote for the House incumbent because he went to college where he learned to hate America. Just like Obama. Hand to Gaia, the ad literally says that.
I get ads saying not to vote for the House incumbent because he went to college where he learned to hate America.
It's a surprisingly popular major!
Their business model continues to amaze and amuse.
It really does. The Tumblr format is letting me do what I prefer which is quickly skim the articles and not have to deal with pretending I care that people are talking about it. But I am so not the target market. And I shouldn't be either. So I am boggled by their decisions here. Okay, I am boggled by their decisions a lot.
The Tumblr format is letting me do what I prefer which is quickly skim the articles and not have to deal with pretending I care that people are talking about it.
Yes, this. It's kind of my preferred format for Jezebel, I have to admit.
Work stuff: it looks like we are on track to hit our Nov. 16th release date, whoo! We just found out our ship party (which I have been told will be heavy on the DRINK HEAVILY options) is also Nov. 16th. I'm totally treating it as a pre-funk for my birthday the next day.
I just saw six political ads in a row. The first and third were the same Romney ad.
Here's how to make yourself feel old - start up a conversation with a co-worker about how you got back and forth to work during the transit strike (i.e. the last time there was no subway service) and have him respond with "Yeah, it took me 3 or 4 hours to get home from school that week." Realize he's talking about HIGH SCHOOL and you're talking about commuting from the same job you still have today.
Hah I was talking with someone today who LOOKED like an adult, at work, but the thing I needed info on happened in 1984, and she was all "I wasn't even born then!" And I'm all "omg how are you old enough to be someone's boss??"
One of my friends was interviewing an intern and asked something like, "How could you use facebook to promote the organization?" and the intern replied, "I don't know. Facebook is really for old people."
I think I heard someone yell "SHIT" really loudly on this floor.
(edit: someone sneezing)
