7th. (Taken with instagram)
I’m @slim and this is where I Tumblr. I work for comiXology and like to take pictures. I take part in several podcasts as well.
“I don’t read anyone consistently aside from Gruber. I see and read so much stuff that even with great engaging writers, there’s a sameness to much of their work that doesn’t interest me…until they really knock something out of the park, and then I’ll hear about from someone I follow on Twitter or Stellar.”
Kottke on what writers he reads daily.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
His entire interview is pretty spot on as well with regards to ditching RSS. Aside from less time to dedicate to stand-alone reader, I find most stuff, if at all, via Twitter anymore.
Name 5 better X-Men comics.
Stop, you can’t.
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My friends and I talked about Rob Liefeld, the books we’ve been reading, Gladstone’s, and your letters. Join us, won’t you?
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Jake and I sat down via satellite with Sam Humphries to talk about creator-owned books Our Love is Real, Sacrifice, and John Carter!
There was some cursing, so I got creative with how to present that to our family friendly audience.
Drool.
iPad-ready mixer from Behringer.
Of course, you could go my route and use a USB attachment to connect to your iPad and record podcasts.
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Snap. It’s this week’s comiXology podcast and just 25 minutes long.
How Much of Tumblr is Spam?
Honestly?
The site I started with friends over at Paperkeg just crossed 7,000 followers.
Huzzah!
I know that 7,000 followers does not mean that 7,000 people will be willing to interact with you in any fashion. I mean, just look at the top Twitter users. When they post a photo to TwitPic, click on the photo to see how many views it has. Often, it does not correlate at all with how many followers they have. (That visible disconnect is solved now with Twitter using their own photo upload service.)
Even if you throw up some amazing post, it’s very rare that it would be Reblogged and then posted in that dopey Comics tag area and underneath Batman & Robin making out and then becoming popular.
However, you would think that something WOULD get Liked, or even Reblogged by at least a small fraction of that number, right?
We get many new followers a day on that page, and most accounts have some awful hyphenation in their name and just look plain fake.
When we do get reblogged, it’s more often than not a Tumblr page that has Reblogged 50 other posts in about 30 minutes. Is that Spam? Is it a 15 year old girl that we can still consider spam in the grand scheme of things?
I often read posts where Tumblr throws out stats about just how active their users are. Well, who gives a shit how active they are if it’s just one reblog circle-jerk of possible Spam accounts?
Wouldn’t that create the same inflated statistics?
Me and my husband happened to sit next to a father and son at a restaurant the other day. The dad was reading comics on his iPad, and the 9-year-old boy was quite a fan of the X-Men. Here, in a nutshell, is the chain of events that led to both currently reading comics.
The father, a school-teacher, used to read comic books when he was a kid. You would think that it was he who introduced comics to his son. But no:
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