This Year in History - 2000

In honour of our 2000th Tumblr follower, I give you the year 2000. In 2000, the world did not end.

This Year in History - 1900

In honour of our 1900th Tumblr follower, I give you the year 1900. In 1900, Ferdinand von Zeppelin created the first airship. It would be another 68 years before Led Zeppelin created album-oriented rock.

This Year in History - 1800

In honour of our 1800th tumblr follower, I give you the year 1800. In 1800, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is founded.

This Year in History - 1700

In honour of our 1700th Tumblr follower, I give you the year 1700, the year Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco invents the piano

This Year in History - 1500

In honour of our 1500th follower, I give you the year 1500. In 1500, Portuguese explorer Diogo Dias is the first European to see Madagascar.

Pictured is the bookshop at the London Missionary Society and Bible Society in Tananarive (now Antananarivo), Madagascar, c. 1931.

This Year in History - 1400 

In honour of our 1400th follower, I give you the year 1400. In 1400, Jean Froissart completed his Chronicles of 14th Century France.

Pictured: The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger. (Yes, this is is gross. But doesn’t it seem a very awkward way to execute someone?)

Recommended by Mr. Tumblr himself, David Karp. Sweet.

dlbrows:

Innovation & Limitation - A Lecture by Malcolm Gladwell on Social Media

This is the lecture Gladwell gave in Vancouver the other day at the F5 Expo. Runs about 50mins but I think it is definitely worth your time. 

Really thought provoking. I can kind of see why some people at this conference didn’t enjoy it because these type of conferences are made to hype up what you’re already interested in and encourage you. But taken the right way I think it can improve how people use tools like facebook and twitter.

Anyway, I’d be really interested in what other tumblrs thought of Gladwell’s lecture. Maybe you don’t take twitter/tumblr/facebook as seriously as he is talking here, maybe you just use it to goof off or maybe do some personal branding for your work (where weak-ties would be useful). But surely we’ve all read articles on Obama using twitter to help build a following and saw the whole green avatar for Iran effort, and I think Gladwell really pulls the rug out from the idea that something like twitter is truly useful for that. 

*update* So I obviously don’t use twitter for any kind of self-marketing but I do however use it as a place to attain info on a range of topics. That being said I went through my following list and managed to delete half the people I was following. I unfollowed people whose lives I didn’t feel very invested in* or people that didn’t consistently provide information (videos/articles/music/other such things that perk my interest) I was personally intrigued by. 

*Honestly, there are people on twitter I don’t know whatsoever who talk about their lives constantly and for whatever reason I want to see what happens with their jobs/girlfriends/softball teams/etc… Kind of like The Hills.

This Year in History - 1200

In honour of our 1200th follower, I give you the Iroquois, who invaded what is now Ohio in 1200 A.D. Presumably they were after the Cleveland indians.

This Year in History - 1000 A.D.

In honour of our 1000th follower, thegomez, I bring you Lief Ericson, first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.

This Year in History - 800 AD

In honour of our 800th follower (taliesyn30), I present Nominoe, first king of all Brittany, born in 800 AD (probably).

(This happened at NYC’s best bookshop, Housing Works.)

marco:

The view from the stage at Tumblr Reads, by Tiffany Arment.

Just hit 700 followers. Thanks kids.

NYC’s best bookstore, Housing Works, does Tumblr readings

Just hit 500 followers. Thanks psychicpilot. (And everyone else)