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Here’s a new Tumblr I’ve launched today: An Illustrated Guide. It’s a review site for picture books that I’ve created with my wife Catherine, covering illustrated books that have caught our eye. We’ll be publishing new reviews regularly, with a selection of titles that will appeal to both parents and collectors of beautiful things. Take a look, follow along. (There’s some extra interactive goodness for those viewing in Safari.) The good news is I fixed the tag pages. The bad news is I deleted the whole shebang in a fit of impressive Tumblarity. The remaining posts will be restored in the next hour or two are now back.

Here’s a new Tumblr I’ve launched today: An Illustrated Guide. It’s a review site for picture books that I’ve created with my wife Catherine, covering illustrated books that have caught our eye. We’ll be publishing new reviews regularly, with a selection of titles that will appeal to both parents and collectors of beautiful things. Take a look, follow along. (There’s some extra interactive goodness for those viewing in Safari.)

The good news is I fixed the tag pages. The bad news is I deleted the whole shebang in a fit of impressive Tumblarity. The remaining posts will be restored in the next hour or two are now back.

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Auckland Tumblr Meetup

Reminder for the locals: there’s a meetup at Neighbourhood Bar (498 New North Rd, Kingsland) this Thursday from 7pm.

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Tumblr AJAX Notes

Now that Tumblr provides a custom tag for generating notes fragments on the same domain name as your blog, I’ve updated my AJAX Notes script to remove the proxy server it was formerly using. The script has a new permanent home here.

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Auckland Tumblr Meetup

Teresa Yang is organising an Auckland Tumblr meetup at El Camino in Kingsland on Thursday, 5th August. If/when that gets too crowded the venue will shift to Neighbourhood Bar along the way. From 7pm, see you there. Update: RSVPs are up.

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Solaris Version History

For users of my Solaris theme, there is now a version history page that details recent improvements. The 1.0.6 update has been submitted to Tumblr and, once approved, will automatically roll out to all blogs that have not switched to the Custom HTML mode in the Customize area (if you have, you’ll need to manually install the theme again, and port your changes to the new version).

The 1.0.6 update includes support for the new AJAX notes handler which loads notes in batches of 100 from Tumblr’s server. (David was kind enough to add callback support so that I could continue to post-process notes after they’re loaded into the page.)

One other recent feature that you may not have seen is support for three custom tags on audio posts that enable you to override the metadata Tumblr extracts from MP3 files for cover art, track name and artist name. These tags also work for externally hosted audio files. I’m investigating an IE7 issue with the script, but it appears to work fine otherwise. Please email if you have issues with this or any other aspect of the theme.

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New theme: Solaris

From today, my new Solaris theme is available as part of Tumblr’s premium themes collection, to be officially launched later this week. Here’s a little rundown of what it offers:

  • Configurable icon sizes and colours
  • Optional “dark” palette, set in the Appearance menu
  • Option to display tags on summary and/or post pages
  • Option to display post authors
  • Lightbox for high-res images
  • Pages, Submissions & Ask support
  • Custom display of audio artwork and artist/track name
  • Custom display of like, reply and reblog notes
  • Display of liked posts and followed blogs
  • Support for Disqus and Google Analytics
  • Custom copyright message

The dark mode, visible in the wild on Nudge Up, seems to be a hit. Solaris is nine bucks via the super-slick new e-commerce process in the Theme Garden.

Big thanks to David, Peter and the team for inviting me to be part of this pilot, which I hope to see opened up to more of Tumblr’s design community soon. On that note, don’t miss my colleague Mike Harding’s delicious Scaffold theme, also for just $9.

Almost forgot: I’ve released National Park from my own site as well.

Update: there is now a version history page that lists new features, bug fixes and improvements to the theme.

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Esquire Theme Update

I’ve made some updates to my Esquire Theme:

Tonight I submitted a major update to Tumblr for approval, it should appear in the next little while in the Theme Garden. Version 1.5 includes much better support for the Disqus plugin (just enter your shortname in the Appearance settings), album art display for audio posts, and an alternative style for quotes (Pete’s zigzag JavaScript wizardry has proven somewhat temperamental).

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Why do we Tumbl? In the end, we use Tumblr not because it’s a great way to connect with our readers (though it is that), or because we believe this or something like it is a part of a new way forward for interaction between publishers and audience (though we think that too). We use Tumblr because it’s fun and while, you know, you can’t eat fun, or trade it in for fistfuls of dollars to fund serious journalism, we believe there’s a value in doing things we like simply because we like to do them, and that hopefully our fellow Tumblrs will too.

— Newsweek on why they use Tumblr. (via Meaghan O’Connell)

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Just when I thought the scrapbook design meme was played out, MetaLab’s Sara White produces what may be the definitive theme of its type for Tumblr, Vintage Scrapbook. It’s a paid theme via Envato’s Theme Forest, but at $12 — and with MetaLab’s customary attention to every single detail — it’s a steal. I’d love to see an option in Tumblr’s Theme Garden for designers to offer paid themes, perhaps with a revenue split akin to the App Store.

Just when I thought the scrapbook design meme was played out, MetaLab’s Sara White produces what may be the definitive theme of its type for Tumblr, Vintage Scrapbook. It’s a paid theme via Envato’s Theme Forest, but at $12 — and with MetaLab’s customary attention to every single detail — it’s a steal. I’d love to see an option in Tumblr’s Theme Garden for designers to offer paid themes, perhaps with a revenue split akin to the App Store.

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♪.tumblr.com

Jarred Bishop’s new project is a song-a-day Tumblr utilising recent support for extracting album art from uploaded tracks. Simply brilliant, from the jewel case design to the single-character unicode URL.

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  • The King Is Dead by The Decemberists
  • Passive Me, Agressive You by The Naked and Famous
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