Study finds around one-third of Americans regularly get their news from Facebook

Around a third of Americans regularly get their news from Facebook, according to the latest study from Pew Research Center, whose surveys aim to better understand the current media landscape in the U.S. In the updated report, Pew Research found that around half of U.S. adults, or 53%, said they “often” or “sometimes” use social media to get their news. This is spread out across a number of sites, but Facebook is at the top of the list. The study found that 36% of U.S. adults said they “regularly...
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Best Writing Apps for Mac: A Collection for a Better 2021

There was a time when writing was just a profession for journalists or fiction writers. Today, the Internet has opened new avenues to writers for both novice and expert in earning a livelihood out of publishing all sorts of content online. We are talking here about blogs, opinion pieces, formal writing, and a lot more in the world of content. Writing applications for Mac users can make a huge difference with their usability.We have compiled a list of 10 Creative Writing Apps for Mac designed ...
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Best Writing Apps for Mac: A Collection for Great 2021

There was a time when writing was just a profession for journalists or fiction writers. Today, the Internet has opened new avenues to writers for both novice and expert in earning a livelihood out of publishing all sorts of content online. We are talking here about blogs, opinion pieces, formal writing, and a lot more in the world of content. Writing applications for Mac users can make a huge difference with their usability.We have compiled a list of 10 Creative Writing Apps for Mac designed ...
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We Asked Alums: What’s Your Favorite Story You Wrote For TPM?

I was once a TPM alum. I spent the summer of 2014 working as an editorial intern at TPM just after I graduated from college. It was a simpler time — Obama was still president,  Ammon Bundy was … Ammon Bundying, and one of our favorite characters to drag at the time was Chuck Johnson. Josh Marshall did his best to keep me around after the internship ended, but TPM didn’t have a full-time opening and I had already accepted a job at a local newspaper back home in Illinois. I left for about three...
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Old Blogging Sites That We Thought were Gone

There are many old blogging sites we all have forgotten now that social media is such a big part of our lives. Little do teenagers now know, blogging was the viral craze for teenage millenials back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. At the time, there were so many websites where anyone could post their journals for free. Originally known as “web logging”, it was the first instance of personalized “presence” on the internet. These are brief posts of their thoughts and idea – basically an online d...
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Tops Tumblr’s 2020 Year in Review

With the coronavirus preventing people from traveling to islands in 2020, the alternative was to create islands of their own, which vaulted Animal Crossing: New Horizons to the No. 1 spot in the top 20 of 2020 list in Tumblr's annual Year in Review. Staying at home also led Tumblr users to focus more on...
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How to find someone on Tumblr and keep up to date on specific blogs

It's not as easy to find someone on Tumblr as it is on other social media platforms. Westend61/Getty Images The best way to find someone on Tumblr is to search for their blog on the mobile app. Tumblr, once one of the most popular social media platforms, is not the easiest place to find people you know. Because the site doesn't require names or any meaningful identifying markers for users or blogs, if you don't know a person's URL or blog title, they may be difficult to find. Tumblr's ...
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How to add links to your Tumblr bio, so that visitors can easily access your best work and other social pages

It's easy to add links to your Tumblr bio on a computer. Westend61/Getty Images To add links to your Tumblr bio, you'll need to use a simple HTML code. Tumblr doesn't give you any sort of built-in way to add links yourself, so you'll have to copy and paste the code in manually. Adding links to your Tumblr bio is a great way to give visitors access to your other social media accounts, selected works, information page, and more. Visit Business Insider's Tech Reference library for more st...
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How to delete your Tumblr account or specific blogs, and erase all of your posts and likes

It's easy to delete your Tumblr blogs. Shutterstock You can delete your Tumblr account through the "Edit appearance" menu. Once you delete your Tumblr account, it can't be recovered. If other users have reblogged your Tumblr posts, deleting your account won't automatically delete those posts from their blogs. If you have multiple Tumblr blogs, you can also delete a specific blog instead of your entire account. Visit Business Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories. Tumblr is ...
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Halloween Talk Starts Early on Tumblr Amid the Pandemic

Covid-19 is ensuring that this Halloween will be very different, but that didn't stop Tumblr users from thinking about Oct. 31 as early as July 1. Tumblr said total engagement (posts, reblogs and likes) for posts with the #Halloween hashtag soared 891% on July 1 compared with June 1, while that rise was 478% for...
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Ten kinetic sculptures by Anne Lilly

Bruce Sterling found this video of Anne Lilly's wonderful kinetic sculptures on an equally wonderful Tumblr called softrobotcritics. [via BruceS]
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My Current Favorite Comic: Alien Sherlock

I try not to cross the streams too often here, because y’all presumably come to find out about comics (and related movies and books), not my weird continuing obsession with Sherlock, but there is an ongoing fan comic on Tumblr that makes me extraordinarily happy whenever I see it. As created by Kitten-Kin, it started with the idea that Sherlock (as seen on TV, with the black coat and blue scarf) is actually a shape-shifting alien, as shown here. Of [...]
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Terry City Joins Tumblr as VP of Entertainment Partnerships

Tumblr tapped the Vice Media talent pool yet again, naming Terry City as its new vice president of entertainment partnerships. City will work to redefine Tumblr's advertising partnerships with the entertainment and technology sectors, including film studios, streaming platforms and television networks. As part of his efforts, he will work with Tumblr's product team on...
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Q&A With Inland Empire Based Hip Hop Aritst PsiloSage

Congrats on your latest EP release “DiorPsilo” . What motivated you to create this style of music. Thank you! Respect to UGHH Blog for this interview. This style of music, what I call PsiloScribblez really came straight out of PsiloSpace which was a place/vibe full of creative freedom that originally existed only on painted canvas. Around 2012-2013, I was painting a lot and releasing these visual Scribblez on Instagram and Tumblr. This coincided with experimenting with entheogens, (usually at r...
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Office Hours: Tumblr's new CRO on starting a job remotely with a baby and being his own tech guy

Welcome to Ad Age’s Office Hours newsletter. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for the newsletter. The way we work is rapidly evolving. In a matter of months, the pandemic has forever changed how we communicate, where we conduct business, the technology we use and how we juggle home and work life. There’s also been a much-needed spotlight thrown on the makeup of the workforce and the efforts being done to make the ad world a more-inclusive place...
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TikTok beware: Legacy tech owners can spell trouble for trendy sites

New ownership can be a deathblow to popular apps and sites.
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An Evangelist for Remote Work Sees the Rest of the World Catch On

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, which runs the publishing platform WordPress, says working remotely is “good for the environment” and “good for the economy.”
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What is the TikTok subculture Dark Academia?

School may be out indefinitely, but on social media there’s a thriving subculture devoted to the aesthetic of all things scholarly.
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Tumblr Taps Vice Media’s Cavel Khan as Its New Chief Revenue Officer

Tumblr has a new chief revenue officer for the first time in years. Cavel Khan joins the company in the role after serving as Vice Media's senior vice president of client partnerships for North America. He started at Tumblr this week. Khan had been with Vice since February 2019, following a little over five years...
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President Trump's clampdown on social media could hurt startups and cripple competition with Facebook and Twitter

President Donald Trump just signed an executive order that cracks down on social media companies, following Twitter's recent decision to add fact-check labels to two of his tweets. The order triggers a critical review of a federal law that currently allows online forums such as Twitter and Facebook to host third-party comments without being held liable for all that content, but also allows them to remove material they find objectionable. Trump directed the FCC, the FTC, and other government ag...
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Tumblr Adds Pinned Posts

Tumblr users can now pin posts to the top of their pages. The blogging platform released the feature Tuesday. Tumblr said in a blog post, "Whether you're on desktop or mobile, this little tool will pin the post of your choosing to the top of your Tumblr. Your dashboard will remain unaffected. Just tap the...
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Automattic pumps $4.6M into New Vector to help grow Matrix, an open, decentralized comms ecosystem

Automattic, the open source force behind WordPress .com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and Tumblr, has made a $4.6M strategic investment into New Vector — the creators of an open, decentralized communications standard called Matrix. They also develop a Slack rival (Riot) which runs on Matrix. The investment by Automattic, which is at a higher valuation than the last tranche New Vector took in, extends an $8.5M Series A last year, from enterprise tech specialists Notion Capital and D...
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Giphy ruined GIFs, and Facebook ruined the internet. They're perfect for each other.

Facebook's purchase of Giphy makes perfect sense: both companies want to serve as many people as possible, without any coherent point of view or aesthetic. GIFs were once a vital and unique artform, but Giphy indexed them and made the same GIFs appear again and again — with boring and predictable consequences. Facebook did much the same for the wider web, stultfying internet culture. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. Visit Business Insider's homepage fo...
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Elon Musk and Grimes gave their baby an unusual name with multiple hidden meanings, and it may have a hidden connection to the X-Men (TSLA)

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and the musician Grimes have given their new baby an unusual name full of hidden meaning, and it may have been inspired in part by X-Men comics.  The name, which Musk and Grimes say is spelled X Æ A-12, is pronounced X Ash Archangel, according to Musk. Archangel is the internal codename for the A-12, a US Central Intelligence Agency plane built during the Cold War.   The A-12 was the precursor to the SR-71 Blackbird, which Musk and Grimes say is their favorite ai...
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Tumblr now removes reblogs in violation of its hate speech policy, not just the original posts

Tumblr is making a change to how it deals with hate speech on its blogging platform. The company announced today it will also remove the reblogs (repostings) from any blogs that were suspended for violating its policies around hate speech. Already, the company says it’s identified nearly 1,000 blogs that were banned for blatant violations of its hate speech rules. Most of these blogs contained Nazi-related content, it said. This week, Tumblr began to remove all the reblogs from these previously ...
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Neil Gaiman Reveals Netflix’s The Sandman Series Has Been Put on Hold

Neil Gaiman reveals Netflix’s The Sandman series has been put on hold It has already been over five months since we last heard an update about Netflix‘s long-awaited series adaptation of Vertigo Comic’s The Sandman, and now creator Neil Gaiman took to Tumblr to answer a fan’s question about the long-in-development series. Like all of Netflix’s current projects right now, the award-winning author has revealed that The Sandman series has also been affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and h...
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It's time to admit 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' is a dumb, boring game for children

"Animal Crossing: New Horizons" has been a quarantine hit, and many have praised its addictive, calming qualities.  But in writer Jack Crosbie's experience, the game has been frustrating, tedious, and immensely boring. The user interface is poor, the characters are meaningless, and the only fun part — playing with your actual friends — can be challenging. Also, Tom Nook is a capitalist overlord. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. A few days after purchasing Animal Crossing: N...
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We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #487

Facebook launches new COVID-19 Community Help hub In response to the ongoing global pandemic, Facebook has expanded its Community Help feature – first launched in 2017 to help users facing after man-made, accidental and natural disasters – with the launch of a new, global COVID-19 Community Help hub. The feature allows Facebook users to request or offer help to those impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, as well as to donate to non-profit fundraisers. It will launch first in the US, Canada, Fran...
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Tumblr Tries to Give People a Break From News About the Coronavirus Pandemic

Tumblr rolled out a new official blog Tuesday, Cozy.Tumblr.com, to help its users cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Cozy.Tumblr.com is not a place for updates related to Covid-19. Rather, it was created to give people "a safe space where they can find positivity in between all the hard news." Tumblr said the blog will be...
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Here's What People Thought of Twitter When It First Launched

The first tweet was sent on March 21, 2006 when cofounder and current CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted, “just setting up my twttr.” Twitter had fewer vowels when it launched, which was the trend at the time with services like Tumblr and Flickr. In just a few years it would become a massive online service.Read more...
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