WSJ reports Yahoo board has approved a $1.1 billion deal — in cash — to purchase Tumblr.
There it is.
it’s the beginning of the end
Ugh. So does anyone have a place where we can migrate too once Tumblr starts going down the shitter?
No matter how hard they try to come off as though money isn’t an issue as Karp did in the beginning when he refused to use ads, they all fold in the end. I’m not going to act like I know what this means for tumblr, but if the history of social networking sites is an indication, most if not all of them go to shit. If that’s the case, we definitely had a long run.
In the summer of 2011 Joakim Kaminsky and Maria Poll went into the deep forests of Medelpad in northern Sweden. With them they brought 15 meters of mirror coated fabric hoping to create an installation that would help them interpret the life cycle, light and reflections of this northern pine forest.
However eternal it may seem this is not a natural forest. Like 90%* of the forests in Sweden it is used for forestry consequently being continuously grown and chopped down in an about 60 years life cycles.
By draping the fabric around the tree trunks we wanted to connect these trees to time. We wanted the installation to became a memory of earlier generations of pine trees that have stood here and a forecast of the clear cut that will soon replace these trees. Perhaps the mirrors could also absorb the light, colors and smells of this place and save it for the future, at least in a place in us?
