Introducing: The AskHistorians Tumblr Blog
As part of our ongoing effort to pivot into a social media startup continue to disseminate history online, we're launching a Tumblr account to post interesting historical content on.
We wanted a place to post interesting historical stuff that didn't necessarily fit in with Reddit's content model or the question/answer model. So the Tumblr gives us a place to put all the photos, videos, and audio that we hit upon when going on Wikipedia walks late at night doing research. Much like the Twitter account, it'll also feature links to some of the best answers in the subreddit.
I know that a lot of you are already on Tumblr, so go ahead and add us to your dashboard. That way when someone looks over your shoulder as you browse Tumblr, you can quickly scroll to a post about the Garfield assassination or something, rather than Benedict Cumberbatch gifs and cat pictures.
If you don't have a Tumblr account, then you are sad and I have no desire to speak with you further you can still follow the AskHistorians blog with the RSS feed.
Feel free to reply to this thread with suggestions about what you'd like to see and/or moderate levels of jocularity.
Posted Nov 4, 2014, 5:58 PM UTC · edited
I am hugely disappointed that r/AskHistorians did not first pursue the enormous opportunities for reasoned academic discourse offered on 4Chan. Imagine the challenge of creating a "Hitler did nothing wrong" discussion entirely in green text.
Sneak preview from the census. Actually what the people really want is a Facebook page. I mean we kinda put that on the list as an afterthought but there it is, Facebook.
De gustibus non est disputandum, but I don't FB, and can't understand the appeal.
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I can see the appeal, and it would be a good way to reach out a different crowd than we can get naturally through reddit traffic, but I already have to manage the Facebook page for work and that's bad enough.
This isn't to say we're never doing Facebook, just that we need to find
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