<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, andrew parker]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, andrew parker]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/andrewparker http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/andrewparker <![CDATA[A blog is a blog is a blog except when it's not]]> Twitter is notIn explaining Union Square Ventures investment in Tumblr, Andrew Parker goes out of his way to distinguish the service from traditional blogs. But in explaining how Tumblr does not compete with Twitter, in which his firm has also invested, he makes it clear that, well, Tumblr is a blog — while avoiding the b-word at all costs. Tumblr is a just blog, and doesn't compete with Twitter. While services like Tumblr, Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce are lumped together as microblogging tools because of their brevity, users recognize the dramatic differences in the software behind them and the experiences they create. They are more than blogs. Brevity may be the soul of wit — but it's not the ghost in the machine.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=314749&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A blog by any other name is still a blog]]> Venture capitalist Andrew Parker has invested in Tumblr. But he must be using the only install of the blog platform that bans images, video embeds, and sentence fragments. In justifying Union Square Ventures' investment in Tumblr, Parker says:

... in the past 18 months I have been blogging, I've been surprised by how cumbersome writing a post can be. Expressing yourself on the Internet should be simpler. The tightly defined conventions and formality involved in maintaining and posting to a blog often get in the way of raw expression.
Yes, Tumblr is cute. Yes, it makes multimedia posts easy. Yes, it encourages brevity. But do we really have to pretend that it's any different than a blog? It's a cute, easy, little blog, but nonetheless, it's still a blog.]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=314723&view=rss&microfeed=true