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Monorail tracks going through the EMP/SFM building The EMP Museum (formerly known as Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame or EMP|SFM ) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of popular music , science fiction and pop culture located in Seattle , Washington . The Frank Gehry –designed museum building is located on the campus of the Seattle Center , adjacent to the Space Needle and the Seattle Center Monorail , which runs through the building. The EMP Museum was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen , and opened its doors in 2000.Metro Mensch in Washington DC
In Washington D.C. at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes.
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Why All The Interest In Tumblr? Try 1,540 Percent Pageview Growth
Tumblr is attracting a lot of attention right now There is talk of a big funding round in the works and it is making significant hires . Why all the interest? Sometime last June, blogging service Tumblr hit an inflection point. It’s visitors and pageviews just took off. According to comScore, Tumblr served up 1.2 billion pageviews in the U.S. in October, up a mind-boggling 1,540 percent from the year before (see chart above). Unique visitors from the U.S. hit 6 million, up 150 percent (see chart below).
In a fireside chat with MG Siegler at TechCrunch Disrupt Monday, Tumblr founder David Karp described how his company thinks differently about advertising than Facebook or Google, and how they hope to make it less distracting and more meaningful to users. In short, it’s all about telling stories. Karp said that for Tumblr, the stuff that appears in the main feed is pretty sacred, as it’s all content that users have chosen to subscribe to.
David Karp: Tumblr’s Revenue Model Is All About Telling Stories
Want to create a custom look for your blog? If you’re comfortable hand-coding HTML, then you’ve come to the right place! If not, choose from hundreds of beautiful themes in the Theme Garden . Introduction Tumblr is built around seven key post types: text, photos, links, quotes, chat, audio, and video. Be sure to customize your theme around these types so that your posts show up beautifully on your blog, on the Dashboards of your followers, and on other blogs when they’re reblogged.
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