In just four years, Tumblr has overtaken the eight-year-old WordPress as the blogging platform du jour. Tumblr now has over 20,870,000 blogs. Mostly about cats and gifs, from what I can see. [Mashable]
Does being on the internet ever make you feel like you’re alone in the world? It should! Because this is basically how we live now: more and more ways to shout into the void, fewer and fewer people listening. Unless you’ve got, like, a kickass podcast, maybe? More »
If you’re a Tumblr user, you probably noticed the massive outage it endured this weekend, and you’re probably having one of those “what if I’d lost everything” moments. Here’s how to back up your Tumblr to save yourself from such distress. More »
The rumours of the last few days have proven true: AOL is snapping up Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch family of sites. The site will share a stable with AOL’s other major tech property, Engadget, in addition to TUAW, Switched and DownloadSquad. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. More »
What’s this? An Ovi app on Gizmodo? Finally, we’ve found one worth talking about – though admittedly this technology isn’t exactly new, having been kicking around desktops for a few years. BlogRadio is just for Nokia phones. More »
There are reports of Google CEO Eric Schmidt forcing his mistress to take down her naughty tell-all blog. Whether that’s the reason for its disappearance or not, we’re glad that our Gawker friends preserved some of the amusing details. More »
