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The Tumblr music scene part II
A few days ago i wrote down a bunch of tumblelogs I enjoy because of the great music they share amongst other interesting things as well.
I just discovered (via John) a much larger list recently posted by yvynyl. It’s excellent and I’m now following a bunch more folks.
Rock on!
The Tumblr music scene
Earlier today Fred wrote about MySpace music and how many artists are now blogging and taking control over their websites.
As a timely example, here is Ben Kweller’s tweet from just a few moments ago.
i wanna meet a professional web programmer! im talkin’ hardcore back-end e-commerce, user login, databasing shit. not just css/html. hit me!
It’s exciting to see more artists take control and move to Tumblr.
When I first switched to Tumblr in 2007 it was prior to our original investment in the company. Initially I was drawn to the simplicity and power of the platform.
But very quickly the music scene became one of my favorite things about the service. Tumblr users are passionate about music.
Tumblr has a built in constraint when it comes to music sharing. One song per day. That’s it. I think that simple constraint actually provides a terrific filter. We get one shot a day. Let’s make it a good one. I know I try to do that.
Check out these Tumblr powered sites when you get a moment. They share some amazing music.
New Speedway Boogie (aka Andy Weissman)
Dan Kantor (founder of Streampad which powers bijan.fm)
Lindsay Campbell (Lindsay gets an honorable mention here. She doesn’t share music as often as the other folks on this list but when she does it’s always great. maybe this post will even encourage her to share more tunes :).
Update: I forgot to include Dave Hyndman in this list. My bad.
My tumblr theme now available under creative commons
A few months ago i hired Bill Israel to design a custom theme for my site along with some new features.
I wrote about it about a month ago when the new theme went live.
A number of folks sent me an email asking if they could get a copy of the text file so that could have the same theme or customize my theme to their liking. My friend Scott Rafer made the same request. At the time I wasnt sure I wanted to do that as you can see in my response.
But since then I changed my mind. Open beats closed as I’ve been saying for a long time. And I can’t say that if I keep my theme closed.
As of today this theme is now freely available under creative commons.
Here’s how to use this theme on your Tumblr site.
1. Download the file BijanTheme.
2. Copy the contents of that file into the Custom HTML field of the Customize area on your Tumblr Dashboard. (Here’s a tutorial on how to customize your tumblr site in case you need more clarification)
That’s it!
I hope you enjoy this theme as much as I do.
bijansabet.com 2.0
I just launched bijansabet.com 2.0 a few moments ago.
It’s still very much powered & hosted by Tumblr.
But it has a new look and new functionality.
First, many thanks to Bill Israel for his creative and technical abilities. He’s simply a great guy and a big part of the Tumblr community. And as I’ve mentioned before, the Tumblr community is lucky to have him. Bill designed my new theme for me.
The new stuff:
-I now have search built in.
-Tumblr has supported tags for awhile but I never tagged my posts because my old theme didn’t display it. This new theme does so I’ll do my part.
-I’ve also got the dark gray background that I used to have on my old typepad blog.
-The navigation bar along the top is new. I’ve got a “Random” link which is fun.
-The “mobile” link brings you to a version of this site that is optimized for mobile. Actually all Tumblr sites support mobile out of the box by just adding /mobile to any tumblr site’s url. That is what this does too.
-The RSS feed remains unchanged.
And of course, I’ve got a new look & feel.
Welcome to my new site. Hope you like it!
