Data Anxiety

GIF of the Year

via prostheticknowledge:

Tumblr Editor Picks Best GIFs of the Year 

topherchris picks 10 great GIFs from the platform for Mashable:

This was was a big year for a certain file format. We witnessed the 25th anniversary of the GIF, the first ever live-GIFing of presidential debates, a large-scale GIF festival and the selection of “GIF” (as a verb, as in to create a GIF file) as U.S. Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries. All that, and we still can’t seem to decide how to pronounce it. I’m a militant proponent of the soft g version — as in, Jiff — simply because that’s how the programmers who developed it pronounced it and it seems right to respect their thinking on the matter.

See the collection of choices: Tumblr best GIFs 2012.

Tumblr vulnerability revealed

SPAM EXPLOIT

Nota Bene!

I have not personally confirmed any of this, as I never, EVER post via email. That is not because I am so virtuously security-aware as much as it is about my need for control, I confess.

Anyway, it seems like a good idea to read the following and consider the suggested advice if you do post by email.

Via hackedy:

mikefuckingchilton:

Is somebody hacking into your account and posting spam??

Changing your email address and your password (or even your url) still isn’t working?? [In other words, none of the listed actions have served as an effective remediation for your hacked status ;o) ]

Spammers don’t even have to log into your account. This is the solution (given to me by the lovely chan):

Go to your blog settings.

Scroll down until you see this:

What spammers are doing is emailing that email in order to post!! Reset your email twice or even three times just to be safe,  if you continue to have a spam issue (and don’t forget to hit save at the bottom).

So far it’s worked on my own blog and on a few others with a similar issue. If they end up getting into our accounts again we’ll look into another solution!!

I thought about this today in the shower and whaddaya know, someone’s doing it already.

Emphasis mine.

How to annoy everyone on Tumblr

j0ethought:

• Re-blog everything 

• Beg your followers to ask you something… anything

• Also suck up to each one. Tell everyone how pretty/smart/funny they are in hopes of an equally groveling response. Publish!

• Don’t bother with spelling, grammar or sentence construction. Just hit the post button early and often

• Remember if other people have said so, it makes it true. This is called Proof-By-Numbers. Remember WMDs and Iraq? Yeah.

• Locate, publish and re-blog pictures of skanks. This will showcase your brooding artistic sensibility to the tumbling world

• Pick a theme with a garish background color and a non-contrasting text color for the best readability

• Annoying theme + Custom HTML + Blinking flash pic..

So of course I re-blogged.

* Edited slightly. I assured Web Of Trust (http://www.mywot.com) that this is a child safe blog.

(Source: joethought)