Marketplace Tech Report for Monday, May 28, 2012
The Internet can get pretty weird. One of the best illustrations of that is the growing trend of highly specific and deeply strange and often very funny blogs on Tumblr. Entire blogs dedicated to nothing but pictures of ugly babies from Renaissance paintings or single Cheetos left on the street. There's one of just cats laying in piles of money. We talk to a few creators of microfocused Tumblrs that have gotten a lot of attention.
The Internet can get pretty weird. One of the best illustrations of that is the growing trend of highly specific and deeply strange and often very funny blogs on Tumblr. Entire blogs dedicated to nothing but pictures of ugly babies from Renaissance paintings or single Cheetos left on the street. There’s one of just cats laying in piles of money. We talk to a few creators of microfocused Tumblrs that have gotten a lot of attention.
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