Group who created Tumblr worm says they're protesting "lowering journalistic standards"
Statement from the group purportedly sent to The Guardian:
This was just another part of our “anti-blogging” campaign. GNAA’s stance on blogging in general has always been a negative one: in short, blogging is lowering journalistic standards to the point where the number of friends a murderer has on Facebook has become news.
How the Tumblr worm worked - Sophos
Although Tumblr is now cleaning-up pages which were affected by today’s worm, SophosLabs was able to briefly explore how the infection spread.
Tumblr Pro-Tip
Hold down the “Alt” key (Windows) or “Option” key (Mac) while clicking the “reblog” button found on Tumblr posts in your dashboard to automatically reblog.
Can we get Sam Youngman his own Tumblr already?
I was probably being an idiot then.
(via tpmmedia)
It’s not just maps, photos and geo locations that number crunchers crave. Tumblr, after all, is a blog network full of cat photos, animated GIFs and other tomfoolery. Yet last year its already booming traffic grew an additional 300 percent. As the Web comic XKCD noted a day before Gnip’s announcement, the proper noun “Tumblr” is perhaps six months away from surpassing “blogging” in online searches, much the way “Google” became synonymous with the verb “search” a decade earlier.
Kudos to our friends at the New York Times for building this highly-entertaining and addictive game. Try it out by blowing up some of their articles here.
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