Instagram Love

Having so little internal memory on my Android “smartphone” means that I regularly swap out apps depending on my current needs. Instagram was removed in favor of other apps before our trip in… Read More →

Goodbye Posterous, Hello WordPress.com

And another web service bit the dust this past week. Posterous, which was bought by twitter, officially shuttered its doors on the 30th of April. Posterous has promised that users’ backup/export files will… Read More →

Instagram Shut Down Hurt Twitter

When Twitter cut off Instagram from its API there were questions about the effect the move would have on Twitter. As it turns out the shutdown hurt Twitter’s quarter-over-quarter engagement per photo fell,… Read More →

Comments and Images

One of the lesser-known improvements (to me, anyway) that WordPress.com implemented at the end of November 2012 was the ability to manage Discussion Settings on images, in addition to Posts and Pages. As… Read More →

Instagram on WordPress.com

Besides being able to embed Instagram photos on your WordPress.com site, I just realized that perhaps you don’t know that since Instagram now lets you log in on its website to view your… Read More →

Patti Smith: Photographer's Muse

Reblogged from LightBox: TIME asked artist, writer and musician Patti Smith, one of this year’s TIME 100 honorees, to tell us about her life in front of the lens. Smith shares some of… Read More →

Instagram’s New TOU in Plain English

As you probably know, Instagram’s new Terms of Use, which stirred up quite an Internet tizzy, kick in tomorrow. Terms of Use for websites, are for the most part, all full of the same… Read More →

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 37,000 views in 2012.… Read More →

Gallery Types Fixed!

Hallelujah! WordPress.com Staff have finally rolled out a fix for the Gallery types, including a fix for responsive width and flexible width themes that was causing these Galleries to break when the browser window was… Read More →