If Austen were online in 2013, she'd be picking up her camera and joining them.
There's one aspect of the $1.1 billion Yahoo-Tumblr deal that no one's discussing: fandom. And it's kind of a big deal.
Yahoo might covet Tumblr's native advertising system, but that poses a big problem: Tumblr users hate Tumblr's native ads.
The phenomenon has become Tumblr's Newton's Law: For every great fandom, there's an equally vocal anti-fandom, bringing it down a peg or three.
Manga legend Osamu Tezuka's Crater will come to the States for the first time thanks in large part to crowdfunding efforts.
At Yahoo's triumphant press conference yesterday in New York, it tried admirably to take the spotlight off its latest acquisition, Tumblr, and shine it on Flickr.