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Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

fredwilson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:13:24 -0000

Can you leave a link to your tumblog so we can check it out?

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

acodring — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:55 -0000

"Paying $0.25 per article might seem too self-aware to a reader at first,"

Just my cheapskate-ness talking, but paying per item makes me hesitate to click in the music download space.

I've taken to the emusic model of a monthly subscription for a set number of downloads.
I know what my monthly expense will be and it gives me a boundary so I don't hesitate to click.

It'd be interesting to see whether my own consumer attitude is shared by many other people, and how the reaction to media articles compares to simple music downloads. e.g. $4/mo for 30 articles.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

fredwilson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:23:29 -0000

Very cool

There is a tumblr theme like that too

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

paulgiacherio — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:26:01 -0000

I agree that there's a lot of room for progressive thinking when it comes to theme development. What's interesting is that all these examples (and some of my own themes) give equal weight to content, which isn't ideal for every situation. Lately I've been fascinated with a layout technique from Suprb. It properly tiles variable length content to a grid, which in my mind would be more appropriate for the type of content you'd find in a typical sweetcron installation, for example. I've adapted the layout on my own tumblr and while it can seem cluttered at times, the layout generally feels more efficient to me.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Timothy Post — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:10:25 -0000

Fred:

Take a look at this Wordpress theme which I recently started using for my blog. It looks very similar to the NYT prototype.

http://maxisnow.com/2009/02...

Here's a demo from the creator's website:

http://maxisnow.com/

Also, take a look at this "Lifestream" blog software called Sweetcron:

http://www.sweetcron.com/

Here's Yongfook's Sweetcron website:

http://www.yongfook.com/

Both a experimenting with new formats as is NYT. I'd love to see some of the more progressive Wordpress theme developers take some of Max is Now!'s idea of theme structure is push it forward.