What To Do When Bored

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As we’re all aware by now, one of the worst environmental disasters in recorded history is underway in the Gulf.
As helpless as you may feel, you can do something right now by donating to a Gulf protection group like Save Our Gulf, the National Audubon Society, or the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
To get all of you involved this week, we’re replacing Tumblr’s usual ocean blue with a new heart-of-BP-executive black and letting you donate without leaving your Dashboard.
Donating will also unlock the Limited Edition Black Dashboard as an account preference.

As we’re all aware by now, one of the worst environmental disasters in recorded history is underway in the Gulf.

As helpless as you may feel, you can do something right now by donating to a Gulf protection group like Save Our Gulf, the National Audubon Society, or the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

To get all of you involved this week, we’re replacing Tumblr’s usual ocean blue with a new heart-of-BP-executive black and letting you donate without leaving your Dashboard.

Donating will also unlock the Limited Edition Black Dashboard as an account preference.

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It’s hard to organize Tumblr blogs by topic. A single one of your blogs may include your personal updates, your art, your opinions, and a YouTube video of a cat speaking Japanese, all in a single day. This has been a real limitation of the current Tumblr Directory. So, for the last few weeks we’ve been experimenting with some brand new tools for exploring Tumblr.

The new Explore page organizes and filters posts by tag. This means that every tagged post has a chance to show up in front of an audience of millions that might not otherwise see it. Think Tumblr Radar by topic.

Up top, the Tumblr Wire makes a return, pulling in featured posts in realtime. Below is a list of popular and trending tags (currently English only, with more languages coming soon). You can also Track these tags to get notifications on your Dashboard when a new post is featured.

Make sure to tag your posts where relevant to help more people find you. You can still look up any tag using the search box on your Dashboard.

We’ve already started finding posts and following blogs that we had no idea existed. Please give it a spin!

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Tumblr iPhone 2.0: Now available on the App Store

We’re excited about this one! The app has been recoded, rewired, and rethought from the ground up to offer you the very best Tumblr experience:

Brand new interface: Browsing your dashboard, creating a post, managing multiple blogs — the most important features are within reach so you can interact with Tumblr effortlessly while you’re on-the-go.

Creating a post: Now easier than ever! Sharing photos, videos, links, chats, text, quotes and audio is front and center. Advanced options like saving drafts and queuing posts are one swipe away.

Messages: View and reply to messages for each of your blogs.

Address book: Find people to follow from your phone’s address book.

New users: Signing up is now native inside the app.

There are tons more features and details that are awesomely crafted.

Check it out on the App Store!

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Tweet from Tumblr

We’re testing Twitter integration on Tumblr. You can set it up by going to the special address: http://www.tumblr.com/settings?twitter

This will automatically send your Tumblr posts to Twitter (you can toggle this when posting). If you have people following you in both places, it’s an easy way to stay active on Twitter, or just to let your Twitter followers know about your Tumblr posts.

If you’re like us, and only follow a few people on Twitter, you should try enabling “Show Twitter updates in my Dashboard” to get all of your friends’ updates in one place.

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“Unlike blogging, where you spend time thinking carefully about what you say in each post, Tumblr is really more about the moment of consciousness, and capturing a snapshot of it. Hence, where blog posts are supposed to be solid and stand-alone, Tumblr posts stand in relation to an entire thread of posts. That’s why looking at a Tumblr page is like taking a peek into a person’s stream of consciousness.”

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The Manila Bulletin: Retention, self-expression, Tumblr

Maraming salamat!

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Name Lacey Micallef
First post July 2010
Location Columbia, Missouri

Teacher of 3-year-olds by day, GIF artist by night. Lacey Micallef is a freelance designer whose tools are 8-bit graphics, animated GIFs, and bizarre pop culture juxtapositions. Hamburgers and pizza are often (delicious) sources of inspiration, as are collaborations with other GIF artists on Tumblr. What started as a hobby may very well beget a new art form, with creators like Lacey leading the way.

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Christopher Dickey
Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Editor for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Author of six books, working on a seventh.

Somewhere in the World Today
…people are celebrating something with fabulous fiestas and festivals in truly mad and amazing ways.

ca$hcats.biz
Incredibly wealthy felines who stack cheese.

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It’s now super easy to add a “Share on Tumblr” button to any site.

Adding the basic Tumblr Button couldn’t be simpler. Just cut and paste the code and you’ll be off running. But the advanced options are where it gets interesting…

The Tumblr Button can give you complete control over how your content appears when shared on Tumblr. Not only does this mean specifying an excerpt or summary, but also deciding whether it appears as a Link, Quote, Photo, or Video Embed.

Even better: This can be deeply integrated with just about any publishing platform to add contextual buttons next to things like paragraphs or photos. Check out these examples.

The appearance of the button is also completely customizable.

Click here to get started!

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Name Josh Rushing
Location Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, Columbia, US

Journalist, presenter, author, and photographer Josh Rushing co-hosts Fault Lines on Al Jazeera English. Rushing enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1990, and was assigned to CENTCOM in Doha, Qatar during Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he served as spokesman to General Tommy Franks. An independent documentary about Al Jazeera, Control Room, captured his efforts to communicate the American message on Al Jazeera Arabic, which eventually led to him resigning his commission and later helping launch Al Jazeera English. He’s the author of Mission Al-Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World.

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Pale Horse Design
Hailing from Tampa Bay, Pale Horse is the moniker and studio space of visual artist Chris Parks.

ReCraft
Web magazine dedicated to modern style, culture, arts, and more.

Fuck You Yelper
An exploration of what happens when you combine an internet connection, money for a meal, and a sense of entitlement.

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Now Live: The Tumblr Spotlight

We’re always amazed by the breadth and creativity we find on Tumblr, and we’re always looking for better ways for you to showcase your talents and discover other interesting blogs. With the new Spotlight, we’ve set aside a special place to highlight a few of these blogs that truly inspire us.

With your help, we’ve added hundreds to this Spotlight over the last few weeks and we’ll be adding many more, along with new categories and new languages. If you know of a great blog that we’ve missed or have a category you’d like to see, please send it to editors@tumblr.com.

It’s also much easier to find the People You Know tool where you can look up your friends on Tumblr. Note: We’ve moved the option to disable email lookups to your Preferences page.

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Behold: Mega-Editor

Still very beta, Tumblr’s new mass post editor currently supports editing tags and deleting multiple posts. More options are in the works.

You’ll see the “Mass-editor” button when viewing your blog on the Dashboard.

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