This NYU professor and hedge fund founder calls Tumblr a ‘porn site’ that was the worst acquisition of the decade

climateadaptation:

Harsh article. Though, how does tumblr make money? Will it survive? Should we users pay to use tumblr?

What’s up with people named Galloway being jerks?

I always had a suspicion that Tumblr won’t last – especially after Yahoo acquired it. Tumblr users won’t pay for it, and they won’t tolerate intrusive ads. I will miss it when it’s gone

This NYU professor and hedge fund founder calls Tumblr a ‘porn site’ that was the worst acquisition of the decade

Why oh why did I turn on the radio this morning and listened to what they said at the Republican Convention?
Also, they had to bring up that teenage asylum-seeker who chopped people up with axe on a train in Germany like they do in Israel

Should have just listened to music…

Took 20 min at the cafe feeding croissant to L and talking to the super-happy barista to flush all that poison out with coffee.

External Visualization Tools

reporter-app:

For those of you who wish to dive deeper into Reporter data, these are some  tools that may be helpful:

NumberPicture

Raw.DensityDesign

Palladio

Zenobase

KillerCup Report Visualizer (source)

Datahero

Plot.ly

Filtergraph

Dataseed

Chartlr

Wizard for Mac

Tableau

Drop chop

CartoDB

Arbor.js

Quadrigram

Infogr.am

I personally find Reporter creepy, but a collection of visualization tools they compiled that could work with any data, not just theirs, is handy.