GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: GSA starts first federal blog on Tumblr platform

General Services Administration debuts USA.gov Blog on social blogging site

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Federal Computer Week

05April2011 12:06pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The federal government is now on Tumblr, with the General Services Administration launching its USA.gov Blog on the popular blogging and social networking platform.

"GSA negotiated the Tumblr terms of service, and we are the first federal agency using Tumblr," said GSA spokesman Robert Lesino.

Tumblr is a free, Web-based social network service that offers registered members an opportunity to blog, share their blogs, "re-blog" by posting others' blogs and to follow and search other members’ blogs. It claimed 15 million users as of March. (read full report)

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GCIS TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING: Tumblr’s David Karp: My Heroes Are Steve Jobs And Willy Wonka

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: TechCrunch

24February2011 3:00pmEST

GCIS TECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Some Internet wunderkinds don’t bother to finish college. Tumblr founder David Karp dropped out of high school, and now runs one of the fastest growing publishing platforms on the Web. In our final segment from this week’s Founder Stories (also watch parts I, II, and III), Karp answers some of Chris Dixon’s rapid-fire questions in the video above. He talks about his best business decision ever (shutting down Tumblr’s profitable, niche, Web development business), why he has trouble sleeping, and how hiring the youngest, most brilliant engineers will become Tumblr’s “biggest recruiting advantage.”

On this last point, Karp says when Tumblr gets to “Google-scale” and Google is still only hiring Ph.Ds, “I want to grab 16-year-olds that are going to be brilliant and help them get there.” What about engineers with at least a college degree? Karp isn’t anti-education so much as he isn’t seeing colleges churn out the talent he needs. “The bigger problem is college isn’t making very good engineers and that is what this industry needs,” he says. (read full report)