If you are blogging about music, then it’s almost a given that you add a music player for tumblr.

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Name Josh Rushing
Location Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, Columbia, US

Journalist, presenter, author, and photographer Josh Rushing co-hosts Fault Lines on Al Jazeera English. Rushing enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1990, and was assigned to CENTCOM in Doha, Qatar during Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he served as spokesman to General Tommy Franks. An independent documentary about Al Jazeera, Control Room, captured his efforts to communicate the American message on Al Jazeera Arabic, which eventually led to him resigning his commission and later helping launch Al Jazeera English. He’s the author of Mission Al-Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World.

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Pale Horse Design
Hailing from Tampa Bay, Pale Horse is the moniker and studio space of visual artist Chris Parks.

ReCraft
Web magazine dedicated to modern style, culture, arts, and more.

Fuck You Yelper
An exploration of what happens when you combine an internet connection, money for a meal, and a sense of entitlement.

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We’re very excited to welcome Spanish into our roster of supported languages!

Spanish is now our seventh language, following English, German, Italian, French, Japanese and Turkish – with more on the way.

You can switch languages on your Preferences page, and follow the new Spanish Staff Blog.

And if you’re nearby, why not stop by a Tumblr meetup organized by one of our Spanish communities? There are meetups coming up in Sevilla, Barcelona, La Serena, San Juan, Buenos Aires, Valparaíso, Alicante, and more.

¡Olé!

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Name Andreu Buenafuente
Location Barcelona, Spain

Andreu Buenafuente is a comedian and host of the late-night talk show Buenafuente. He got his start in sports radio at age 17, then moved to television in 1992. In 2005, he debuted as host of his own show, Buenafuente, which broadcast 964 episodes over six seasons in Spain. Andreu also has been involved in theatre, film, and founded the production company El Terrat in 1989. His Tumblr blog provides an intimate look into his discoveries and inspirations.

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Toy Selectah
Mix-master wizard in Monterrey’s Hip Hop scene, producer, remixer, and now CEO of his own production company and boutique label.

Antonio Muñoz De Mesa
Actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and presenter.

My Spanish Tutor Notebook
A new Spanish learning program created by Luis Cardozo, who developed his exceptionally effective methods while teaching the language to hundreds of students over more than two decades.

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Tumblr Android 2.0: Now available on the Android Market

Android users, say hello to the new Tumblr app, rebuilt from the ground up! We hope you’ll enjoy the updated features, including:  

• New interface: A total redesign centered around Android’s hardware and software.
• Manage multiple blogs: It’s now a simple swipe to access your different blogs and manage your drafts, queue and followers on-the-go.
• Create a post:  We’ve highlighted posting to Tumblr so you can share text, images, links, chats, quotes and videos whenever you want.  
• Messages: View and reply to messages for each of your blogs.
• Address book: Find people to follow from your phone’s address book.
• New users: Sign up right from the app.
• Bonus: For quick sharing, you can post anything from your home screen via the Tumblr widget.

Go ahead and grab it on the Android Market!

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The Tumblr Android release has been getting some pretty good press!  I’ve also been seeing the odd issue cropping up here and there.

I wanted to let everyone know that we’re working on it. Expect a patch soonish. :-)

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Tumblr Android 2.0.2 is ready to download on the Android Market!

For those of you on older phones who couldn’t upload photos, that should now be working.

There were also cases where the Reblog screen wouldn’t switch to landscape mode. That’s also now fixed.

We’ve heard a few reports of folks having trouble launching the app, and our last patch seems to have cleared everything up. If you’re hitting this, please uninstall and reinstall the app from the Android Market and the issue should go away!

Sorry for the trouble. Please let us know if you run into any more issues.

We’re currently working on things like: Landscape mode for the Dashboard, moving the app to the SD card, speeding up loading times, and making the app Honeycomb compatible.

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Name Shane Burcaw
Location Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

“I will most likely be dead before I turn 30. Even that estimate is a generous one. I have a disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Type 2) that has been slowly destroying all the muscles in my body,” starts the first post on Shane’s blog. Laughing At My Nightmare is written by a 19-year-old kid in a wheelchair named Shane about his life and his disease. A sophomore at a small liberal arts college studying journalism and psychology, he loves to laugh as he shares his unique perspective on life.

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FFFFOOD
A place for all things gastronomical: Recipes, reviews, and general foodliness.

Our Favorite Findings
A fantastically curated list of Emily and Karishma’s favorite findings on Etsy.

Richard McCoy
Art conservator, writer, researcher, educator, and guy who loves his family.

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Name Natasha Leggero
Location Los Angeles

Natasha Leggero wants you to know that, despite being a successful actress and comedian, she still lives in a servantless household. She began performing in plays in her native Chicago at age 10, earned a BA in theater criticism in New York, then moved to Los Angeles. Natasha is a frequent panelist on Chelsea Lately, voices Callie Maggotbone on Ugly Americans, and plays the role of Emma in NBC’s new series Free Agents, which debuts tomorrow night.

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Paper Planes
Artist Carl Nelson’s blog of original artwork, illustrations, and comics.

From Piercings to Pacifiers
A hardcore piercing artist who recently transformed into a 9-5 straight-laced dad.

Rampaged Reality
For all your geek eye candy needs.

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A large segment of custom domain blogs experienced an outage earlier this afternoon with roughly 3.5 hours of intermittent availability.

The interruption stemmed from an issue in the way this blog traffic gets load balanced (distributed across our servers). This system has been undergoing a delicate but comprehensive overhaul to handle the tremendous amount of new traffic we’re projecting this year. This is one of many areas where our engineering team (now 22 strong) is constantly striving to make our infrastructure as resilient as possible.

It goes without saying that the performance of your blogs is our highest priority.

We’re deeply sorry for today’s failure.