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Name Piano Across America
Location Denver (next up: Chicago)

In April, Dotan Negrin started a journey to develop himself as a pianist. He left New York with his dog, Brando, his upright piano, and a plan to cross the country and perform in improbable public places along the way. Today, Dotan finds a deeper meaning in his experiences. “My mission is to inspire people to create unique projects like this, to pursue their passions. I believe anyone can do anything if they have enough passion,” he says.

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Breaking News
Breaking news alerts from hundreds of sources 24 hours a day. See also: Inside Breaking News.

SCANDYBARS
Like a blog in a candy store!

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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.

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Introducing the new and very improved way to customize your blog

With themes organized by category, realtime previews, and an advanced code editor, it’s never been faster or easier to make your blog yours.

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Tumblr Android 2.0.4: Now available on the Android Market

This update features:

• New, cleaner, better-looking post screens.
• Faster Dashboard loading — especially when switching screens.
• Reblogging to Queue.
• Lots of bugs squashed.

I’m still working with a few of you who are mysteriously unable to log in from certain devices. If you run into this issue, please email support and tell them Chris sent you.

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Yesterday we did a historic thing. We generated 87,834 phone calls to U.S. Representatives in a concerted effort to protect the Internet. Extraordinary. There’s no doubt that we’ve been heard.

So just to keep you updated: The well-intentioned, but immensely flawed “Stop Online Piracy Act” is still in the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing was yesterday and now members will debate and bring amendments to the bill. The Committee will reconvene in a few weeks — the date has yet to be scheduled. Nothing has been brought to a final vote. Everything is still very much in play. We’ll keep you posted on what’s going on and what you can do to help. But for now, we want to thank you.

One encouraging thing we heard yesterday:

I don’t believe this bill has any chance on the House floor. I think it’s way too extreme, it infringes on too many areas that our leadership will know is simply too dangerous to do in its current form.

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Name Tom Hunter
Location Melbourne, Australia

Animation student Tom Hunter made his first stop-motion animation while in high school: a film about an orange creature named Reg who had the misfortune of losing a sock. He’s been hooked ever since. Today, he’s one year away from finishing an animation degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In the meantime, he’s done work for the upcoming season of Yo Gabba Gabba!, created layouts for Adventure Time, and plans some series pitches for TV networks that I can’t even mention.

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Rob Dobi
Illustrator, designer, photographer Rob Dobi.

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Keep your blog safe!

Never type in your password unless you see the green “Tumblr, Inc.” emblem in your browser.

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What do those numbers add up to? Mobile updates. We have a bunch coming over the next few weeks.