Interesting analysis that explains how the success of Tumblr is based on being a visual platform where users share a lot of pics: ""Tumblr culture is heavily meme based, with fashion, photography and pop culture all heavily viral across the network." said Dan Goodwen, who runs the popular Total Film blog, answering a question on Quora (http://www.quora.com/How-is-Tumblr-culture-different-from-Twitter). He also adds: "An image post on Tumblr is almost always more viral than a short text post, and pictures/GIFs are generally more popular than video/audio/link posts."

I also do get this feeling that Tumblr is sometimes actually closer to a photo sharing network than a blog platform. But then again, my own Tumblr blog isn't based on this so I guess it's more complex...

Still, as the article concludes: "If Tumblr does continue to expand, and Twitter is to compete (albeit with a slightly different content-sharing model) it may find itself having to make an even better system to share and embed images and video in tweets. And more traditional blogs are already waking up to the need to share content on social networking forums as a way to both promote their content and engage in conversations with users--and it's possible we'll see more and more brands embracing Tumblr as a channel for simple message communication."

I do think this latter part is just touching on something even more important in understanding the difference between Tumblr and - say - Wordpress:

Tumblr is a community. Wordpress, not.

"As social replaces search, humans show their superior ability to defeat the web's spammers and disinformation."

Mahalo admitted losing 50% of their Trafic through Panda, Google new search algorithm. This is an interesting read as there's been much confusion on what the impacts of Panda were going to be.

This article explains how Google takes the real-time web and the curation performed on Twitter much more into account. A fact content farms were not able to optimize for as their long tail content might be relevant (or not) but more importantly doesn't get validated by a community.

One battle won by human curators in the war against the machines?

Interesting articles in the Guardian by Nik Peachy (a Scoop.it user) on how self-made teachers sites can rival established learning sites.

We've seen a lot of teachers and educators use Scoop.it and after initially being surprised, we now realize it makes total sense: isn't teaching about presenting, commenting and highlighting great content? And inspiring others with it?

Well, I won't disagree it's never been easier.

Great analysis shared by Brian Solis. If you extend that to companies, it makes sense too. Curating content meaningful to your audience is a better way to communicate than self-promoting your products, isn't it?

Think of yourself as an editor....

Looks like the curation mindset is now becoming pervasive.

(via @cgiorgi on http://www.scoop.it/t/startup-advices)

Interesting summary by Mathew Ingram on the arguments between Jeff Jarvis, Frederic Filloux and him.

"We've spent so long consuming the news in fairly predictable formats that the new forms of journalism we are seeing all around us can be confusing. But these new forms have the potential to broaden the field immensely, and that is a good thing." he writes.

These new forms interestingly include more and more social media, curated streams of tweets and content, etc...

The form change but at the end of the day, I feel they still tell a story. Or actually I'd put it this way: whatever the form, if it doesn't tell a story, there's a good chance readers won't memorize it.

The power of storytelling, you know...