It’s barely five years old, but the microblogging platform Tumblr already rakes in 15 billion page views every month. With all that buzz, we thought we’d showcase the best accounts out there (with some help from TIME’s Tumblr followers, who nominated their own favorites).
You’re looking for a place to eat in the Bay Area, perhaps something Tex Mex, or better still, Mexican. You drop the words “Mexican Food” into your browser, which perhaps summons this strange McSweeney’s-esque review of the Papalote Mexican Grill, located in San Francisco’s Mission District, typed up by someone named Cormac M:
“’Why, what you in for?’ he asks. 20 minutes of laughter, handshakes and spreading the news down the wings later and the mood has lightened considerably.” — JONNIE MARBLES, who attempted to throw a foam pie in Rupert Murdoch’s face in July, explains his sentence to his prison cellmate. Marbles, whose real name is Jonathan May-Bowles, [...]
A man is trying to fight a judge’s order to remove a blog that he used to talk trash about his former spouse for the past four years, citing his right to free speech.
Remember those cheesy elementary class photos with the 80s-style lasers? This Tumblr sure does.
Forever 21 is picking a fight with fashion blogger Rachel Kane, author of satire blog WTForever21.
A new report says blogging has decreased among younger generations. Social media may be to blame.
Shirley Sherrod, who resigned from her post at the USDA after a video of her was taken out of context, said she plans to sue the blogger who first accused her of racism.
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