I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Timmi and Ailine from the über-fantastic Freunde von Freunden last month.
That’s me there on the left.
Hrmph
Where’d your radar detector go?
New York State Trooper
danixlle asked:
I'm doing a research paper on how social networking effects the way people communicate, and I was wondering if you could answer a few questions?
1. How do you think Tumblr has changed the way people communicate, if at all?
2. Do you think Tumblr is like Twitter or Facebook, if so, in what way?
3. How do you see Tumblr growing in the next 5 years?
4. Do you see Tumblr becoming the next Facebook or Twitter?
5. What kind of person do you want Tumblr to attract?
- I’ve certainly seen it help people open up their hobbies/interests/creativity where they hadn’t before. You have to consider how many people are out there who care about something that just isn’t a priority in their local community.
- Both seem pretty hostile to creative expression. That’s where we’ve always seen Tumblr fitting in.
- A lot faster than I expected! So much of our new growth is outside of the US. I’d say a lot more will be non-English speakers in the next few years.
- Hopefully it’s complementary to them! I don’t see it usurping either.
- Exceptionally creative and talented people. :)
La Esquina
The aspect one cannot argue is nutrition: Incredibly, the McDonald’s product contains more sugar than a Snickers bar and only 10 fewer calories than a McDonald’s cheeseburger or Egg McMuffin. (Even without the brown sugar it has more calories than a McDonald’s hamburger.)
The bottom-line question is, “Why?” Why would McDonald’s, which appears every now and then to try to persuade us that it is adding “healthier” foods to its menu, take a venerable ingredient like oatmeal and turn it into expensive junk food? Why create a hideous concoction of 21 ingredients, many of them chemical and/or unnecessary? Why not try, for once, to keep it honest?
