aug 2
2008
What Would Don Draper Do?
New Tumblr: What Would Don Draper Do?
11 comments
Dear Rex, it is a tumblelog, not a Tumblr. In the same way this isn't your Movable Type (or Wordpress or Textpattern, and so on), it is your blog.
posted by Richard at 2008-08-02 06:03:29 
oh REALLY?<br /><br />
posted by Rex at 2008-08-02 11:05:45
Yeah well the LEGO company wants us to call them "Lego building blocks" but we all say 'legos.'<br /><br /> <br /><br /> 'tumblelog' sounds like something cooked up by marketing at an ungrateful web startup and pushed on its users to me.
posted by alesh at 2008-08-02 13:06:03
I calls it a dot-com. A useful one at that!
posted by wwydfakb at 2008-08-02 14:02:43
Seriously, that's a hilarious thing to say, Richard. Karp calls his blog a Tumblr!<br /><br /> <br /><br /> It reminds me of an argument I had with Little Green Footballs many years ago when he claimed that he would never use the word "blog" -- that it was supposed to be "weblog." HAHAHA.<br /><br />
posted by Rex at 2008-08-02 16:30:14
Thermos, Xerox, Kleenex, Google, FEDEX or UPS, Tumblr<br /><br /> <br /><br /> When your product's or service's name is the de facto name for the product or service then it doesn't matter what you're selling, people can just call it and all similar items/offers by your name.<br /><br /> Bonus points if it becomes a verb.
posted by robosheep at 2008-08-02 21:13:28
Rex,<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Where does David call his tumblelog "a Tumblr"?
posted by Marco at 2008-08-04 10:05:33
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fimoculous/2654444700/" target="_blank">At my beach house</a>. Hah.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> You guys aren't seriously trying to join this lexical mission, are you? Compare:<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22my+tumblog%22" target="_blank">"my tumblog"</a> - 13,700<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22my+tumblelog%22" target="_blank">"my tumblelog"</a> - 56,900<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22my+tumblr%22" target="_blank">"my tumblr"</a> - 127,000<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Seriously, most people refer to their site as their Tumblr, not their tumblelog.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
posted by Rex at 2008-08-04 13:11:17
Sure, but a lot of people also incorrectly refer to the generic verb of "photoshopping" images. Compare:<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=photoshopped&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" target="_blank">"photoshopped"</a> - 2,630,000<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22edited+with+Adobe%C2%AE+Photoshop%C2%AE+CS3%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" target="_blank">"edited with Adobe® Photoshop® CS3"</a> - 79<br /><br /> <br /><br /> That doesn't mean Adobe should stop trying to correct them.
posted by Marco at 2008-08-04 13:50:50
Actually, YES IT DOES!<br /><br />
posted by Rex at 2008-08-04 13:58:18
I say, who cares? don't steal Draper's thunder..
posted by marrina at 2008-08-04 15:09:39
