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Can Tumblr Turn a Profit?

Angus Loten, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 17 at 7:00 am PT

David Karp has focused on expanding Tumblr Inc.’s network of free bloggers for the past five years. Now, both he and his company are heading into a risky new phase: Making the site profitable.

Twitter Buys Posterous; It’s Not Quite an “Acqhire” as Product Won’t Be Shut Down

Liz Gannes in News on March 12 at 2:05 pm PT

Posterous, once a blogging service competitive with Tumblr and now a group conversation tool, has been bought by Twitter.

The U.S. Army’s Guide to Pinterest (Really)

Peter Kafka in Social on February 21 at 4:19 am PT

Better than an infographic!

Voices

Four Weird Things the Internet Is Doing to Our Understanding of Television

Eric Spiegelman, Contributor, The Awl in Voices on February 16 at 3:21 pm PT

People seem really intent these days on fusing television with the Internet. On one level this makes no sense.

Manual Typewriters, the Original Mobile Devices

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 10 at 5:00 am PT

Upon hearing manual typewriters are now “a thing,” AllThingsD’s Ina Fried dusts hers off and puts pen to paper extolling the virtues of the pre-computer keyboard.

Google’s Ad Company (Which Isn’t Google) Explains What’s Up With Those Chrome Ads

Peter Kafka in Media on January 3 at 6:11 am PT

No big deal, says Unruly Media CEO Scott Button — we do this stuff all the time.

News Byte

Here He Is

Kara Swisher in Media on September 23, 2011 at 5:16 pm PT

We’ll admit, it’s clever, even if he can’t quite let go. Even the chest shot, but only because it says “Unpaid Blogger.” In other words, tech’s bad boy Michael Arrington has a new blogging home on a site called Uncrunched, after leaving AOL and the tech news blog he founded, TechCrunch, amid controversy. His first post is only three words, all in the title: “Here I Am.” Indeed.

Posterous Revamps Around Sharing “Spaces”

Liz Gannes in Social on September 12, 2011 at 9:12 am PT

Posterous today is reshaping its existing blog and group products into a single entity called “Spaces,” which helps users share different content with different people.

Give Me Back My Baby: Michael Arrington Trying to Buy Back TechCrunch From AOL — But Would AOL Sell It?

Kara Swisher in Media on September 6, 2011 at 11:57 am PT

Hoo boy. It gets worse, of course.

Video: Om Talks About $6 Million Giga-Funding

Kara Swisher in Media on May 26, 2011 at 1:14 pm PT

Yesterday, I slogged through the rain to the downtown San Francisco HQ of the GigaOM Network to visit with tech blogging pioneer Om Malik and talk about the latest $6 million in funding for the tech news and analysis site.