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2012-04-12 16:21:03 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

ShortFormBlog's Illustrated History

Just want to point out a project I helped put together on Facebook — for +ShortFormBlog's Facebook page, me and an illustrator friend of mine, +Ben Claassen III helped conceive and design an "alternate history" of the blog — placing the site in multiple

Check it out over here, guys! https://www.facebook.com/shortformblog

2012-03-02 03:31:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Guess who got nominated for a Shorty Award? That's right, +ShortFormBlog!!!

2012-02-01 04:17:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Think these dogs are good matches with their presumptive GOP owners?

2012-01-29 20:44:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Rick Santorum's dealing with some family stuff at the moment. Will this become too much to handle if he's president?

2012-01-28 01:04:05 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

CBS Sports fires the blogger behind a major error: He reported Joe Paterno died based on a single tweet that was only linked, not sourced. (He wasn't dead at the time, though he died about 12 hours later.)

2012-01-26 17:39:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

US Rep. Barney Frank and partner Jim Ready to get married
Mass., USA

The +Boston Herald reports that Barney Frank, the openly gay congressman who announced his retirement in November, plans to marry his partner Jim Ready in a Massachusetts ceremony.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220126us_rep_barney_frank_to_get_married

Photo: +The Associated Press

2012-01-26 17:34:06 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The +Washington Post wants you to come up with a caption for this photo. Can you? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-user-polls/post/president-obama-and-jan-brewer-the-caption-contest/2012/01/26/gIQA1pt2SQ_blog.html

2012-01-11 02:54:46 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

We are a bit surprised by Twitter's comments about Search plus Your World, because they chose not to renew their agreement with us last summer (http://goo.gl/chKwi), and since then we have observed their rel=nofollow instructions.

2012-01-05 04:54:07 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Kodak's on the road to bankruptcy, sources say. Sounds like someone lost the plot.

2012-01-03 02:24:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In case you were in need of an antidote to the #IowaCaucus coverage, watch this video.

2012-01-01 14:10:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Today's our third birthday, and in honor of that, here are the best stories we spotted in 2011:

2011-12-31 03:00:36 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"Third-party extensions and hacks are a part of the web, perhaps Tumblr should focus on building new features or its own official 'app store' instead of whining about support and server issues." +Drew Olanoff nails it.

2011-12-30 19:53:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This week, you might've heard about the death of Ben Breedlove, a YouTube personality with a heart condition who nearly died three times before — twice in 2011. What was even more captivating about Breedlove's death is the way he openly discussed it in two videos he made a week before his death (http://j.mp/vzaPRS) — using note cards, but remaining silent.

He openly credited another teenager named Kieran Miles for the idea. His video, in case you haven't seen it, is a tear-jerker, too. But in much the same way as Breedlove's, it's extremely uplifting. Worth a watch.

2011-12-29 18:31:36 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Lesson of the day: Not every company on these #SOPA supporter lists actually supports SOPA. When they signed up, it was for a different reason entirely. Here's the founder of D’Addario to explain.

2011-12-29 07:28:25 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

Kelly Clarkson and Michelle Branch getting shouted down by their fans for supporting Ron Paul? This is pretty ugly.

2011-12-28 23:00:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Santorumentum?!?

2011-12-28 17:10:53 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Alright, we admit that we let this feed slow over the last couple of weeks (social network management isn't always a fun job for a small staff), but we do want to give it another go moving into the new year. What sort of things do you want to see from us on Google+?

2011-12-28 17:06:30 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

We weren't sure what to make of last night's Kim Jong-Il funeral, but we dutifully liveblogged it. What did you think?

2011-12-07 02:47:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Alec Baldwin: "Words With Friends" fan, American Airlines hater. "Words With Friends": Alec Baldwin fans.

2011-12-06 16:38:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The report is generally very critical of the user experience offered by the the Kindle Fire. http://rww.to/u3P4iF

2011-12-06 16:36:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In #Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker wants to charge protesters for the right to protest in the Capitol en masse. Think this will fly?

2011-12-04 18:51:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Really appreciate Cass McCombs' graceful take on the protest song — in this case with "Bradley Manning."

2011-12-03 23:42:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Just for kicks, we created this as a sort of jokey response to "The Cain Solutions," the site Cain launched today as he announced the suspension of his campaign.

"The Abel Solutions." A one-note joke, and one we won't follow through on. What would you do with this site? Would love ideas.

2011-12-03 02:24:11 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 3 +1s)

#Journalism wouldn't have the shape it does today without this guy. Thanks for everything, Lou.

2011-12-02 19:34:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Via CBS News/National Journal's Lindsey Boerma:

Cain himself just said in SC town hall: "Tomorrow in Atlanta I will be making an announcement... to clarify what the next steps are."

2011-12-02 15:15:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Wow. So Time Magazine directly responded to last week's controversy over their cover — and the Tumbl-zine we did over the weekend — in the magazine.

Context: http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/post/13375727412/tumbl-zine-time-magazine

2011-12-01 18:55:43 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

COO Sheryl Sandberg says the company is a trailblazer on the controversial matter.

2011-12-01 18:51:19 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Props to Obama for his big push on #WorldAIDSDay.

2011-12-01 00:06:42 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Props to Tyler Perry for his open letter to one of the alleged Penn State victims.

2011-11-30 02:55:56 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Regarding Barney Frank's recent retirement announcement, our good friend Karl Rove tries for a verbal uppercut — and fails.

2011-11-30 02:53:24 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Bradley Manning's lawyers try an interesting defense strategy. #Wikileaks via +Michael Cote

2011-11-27 02:14:05 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald (among others) loudly scorned Time Magazine for playing a soft story on its U.S. edition, while giving the growing protests in Egypt big play on the international editions of the magazine. But is that really a fair criticism — to look at a single issue and made the judgment that Time whitewashes its U.S. editions? Check out my analysis here.

2011-11-26 07:05:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

If it wasn't for Fred Meijer, you most likely wouldn't have Black Friday. He basically invented the big-box store concept. So it's strange to think that he died at 91 on Friday — Black Friday, of all days.

2011-11-23 19:26:15 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

+Breaking News It appears that one of the two new sexual abuse allegations we told you about yesterday was made by a family member of the former Penn State football coach.

2011-11-23 17:57:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Last night, a mysterious goo showed up on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It did this to hundreds of cars.

2011-11-22 21:52:12 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

On Friday, we'll be taking part in StoryCorps' #NationalDayOfListening, and recommend you take a little bit of time to thank a teacher yourself. Read the post for more info. :)

2011-11-22 19:19:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2011-11-21 00:40:36 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

We're covering the evening's NYC terror threat news on the blog. We're liveblogging the press conference over here: http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/tagged/nov20

Click below for the live feed.

2011-11-20 14:58:09 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 2 +1s)

The UC Davis pepper-spray incident is pretty obviously the important story of the weekend. Here's what one person who was there claims happened.

2011-11-20 00:09:42 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 0 +1s)

U.S. banks should "undermine" Occupy protesters: memo

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a big enough problem for U.S. banks that they should pay for opposition research into the political motives of protesters, said a firm that lobbies for the industry.

2011-11-19 23:48:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

And the award for the "Most Insecure Security Detail" goes to …

2011-11-18 21:24:04 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Today in corrections. We can thank Christopher Walken for this one.

2011-11-18 18:40:31 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Natalie Wood's infamous drowning three decades ago is back in public view, after the yacht's captain claimed on TV this morning it was a homicide.

2011-11-18 18:38:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Spotted at #OccupyTampa yesterday: A friggin' tank.

2011-11-18 05:14:55 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2011-11-18 04:16:38 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

How close did the guy who fired at the White House get to the building? Not very. This graphic +USA TODAY put together gives you a real idea of the distance those bullets had to go to even get within shouting distance of the president's crib.

2011-11-17 17:42:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

After Libya flub with one newspaper editorial board, Herman Cain cancels a meeting with another.

2011-11-17 16:40:09 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Photo of the day: A couple of Wall Street employees hold their own anti-#OccupyWallStreet protest.

2011-11-16 16:26:59 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hey, Google, do this to your search results. Maybe this will get Congress' attention.

Tumblr has a site up with more: http://www.tumblr.com/protect-the-net

A rare bout of political advocacy for Tumblr, but an effective one.

2011-11-16 16:13:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Surprisingly, a few diehards made a serious effort at staying at Zuccotti Park last night. Sleep wasn't on the menu, however.