It’s time to officially welcome Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese to Tumblr’s roster of supported languages!
This now makes Tumblr accessible in a total of 11 different languages. To celebrate in Brazil, we’ll be holding official Tumblr meetups/events in Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. And in Portugal, we’re teaming up with Vice in Lisbon to celebrate the Portuguese launches. Join us!
To turn on these new localized interfaces on Tumblr, head over to your Preferences page to switch your language settings. And be sure to follow Tumblr’s official Portuguese and Brazilian Staff Blogs, too.
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany lifts the Premier league trophy and celebrates with Edin Dzeko (2nd R), Sergio Aguero (R) and Samir Nasri (L) after their 3-2 victory over Queens Park on Sunday. Manchester City won the game 3-2 to secure their first title since 1968. This is the first time that the Premier League title has been decided on goal-difference, Manchester City and Manchester United both finishing on 89 points. (Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images)
Confessions of a Michael Stipe
“It’s only been six months,” longtime R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe says quietly. “So it’s really hard to even figure out who I am.” The 52-year-old is of course referring to life after his band, who — after three decades, 15 albums, and a meteoric rise from indie icons to mainstream superstars — announced they planned to “call it a day.”
“It’s pretty wild,” Stipe says. “I have this sensation that I’ve never felt … It’s kind of a newfound freedom.”
It was the end of an era, and not only for Stipe, but for anyone who’d grown up with REM. And yet, even as Stipe soul-searches, he is making some of the most creative work of his life. He’s got a studio in downtown Manhattan, where he is creating bronze sculptures of old cameras and cassette tapes. He’s producing a documentary about Internet fame. He (was) on Instagram, until a few weeks ago, when he proclaimed he did not want “any part” of Facebook “up in my grill.” And he has a crazy, beautiful, eccentric Tumblr — Confessions of a Michael Stipe — that he uses as a scrapbook to document it all. We sat down with Stipe at the Tumblr offices (among many giddy staffers) to get inside his head.
Via Storyboard
The March 4, 1986 issue of Sports Illustrated takes a look at baseball’s 36 millionaires and exactly how much they make. The average MLB salary in 2012 is $3,440,000, according to CBSSports.com. (Jerry Wachter/SI)
SI VAULT: Raines becomes baseball’s 36th million-dollar player (3.4.85)
You guise, they called us the coolest people on the planet!
BECAUSE YOU ARE. Duh. Just reporting the truth.
“Affable”?!
One correction: I swear I don’t have “contempt for advertising”. I was describing the state of digital advertising, which I find sorely uncreative at the moment. :)
In which Newsweek features a story about tumblr “growing up.”
Here’s an excerpt:
Once, around six years ago, Karp’s mentor, Fred Seibert, gave him some tough love. Karp had begun working for the television and film producer after dropping out of New York’s prestigious Bronx High School of Science at the age of 15. He had taught himself how to code, and his parents homeschooled him while he worked for Seibert and built Davidville, which he called “an invention company.” Seibert helped him get his next job, as the chief technology officer of UrbanBaby. After Karp cashed out, in his late teens, Seibert offered some unsolicited advice. “He thought I looked like a chump because I was wearing a tie too often,” Karp says. Doogie Howser, M.D., wore a tie every day; a tech boy-wonder also had to dress the part. (Karp now sticks to hooded sweatshirts and jeans.)
It was 2007 when Karp, then 19, turned his interest to blogs. Blogging was already widespread, but existing services, like WordPress, presumed a familiarity with things like HTML that many would-be bloggers didn’t have. Karp wondered why no one had invented something simpler, so he did it himself. Bloggers flocked to the site, which he called Tumblr.
The company has come a long way from two employees in a tiny Manhattan office. It now occupies two floors in a loft building in Manhattan’s tony Gramercy neighborhood. There is beer in the kitchen and a Ping-Pong table on the sixth floor, but compared with the Chuck E. Cheese office environment of other Internet startups, the atmosphere is relatively sedate. “These are nerds,” says Tumblr VP Andrew McLaughlin, the former deputy technology chief for the Obama White House. “People like to make goofy sci-fi GIFs, not so much tank beers through a funnel.”
Not that there’s anything wrong with tanking beers through a funnel, right?
Tumblr Plans to Cash In. Will 53 Million Bloggers Agree?, Newsweek
ESPN analyst Chris Berman looks at the projected picks for the first round of the 1987 NFL Draft. Who will be drafted in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft? Find out Thursday. (AP)
GALLERY: Historic Photos of the NFL Draft
2012 Mock Drafts: Don Banks | Peter King
I took this photo. So that’s something.
john:
Spent time with Michael Stipe from REM yesterday
I tried to act cool I really did
If you were alive in the 1980’s and paying attention you know what I mean
