The Seattle photo tumblelog I started over a year ago, ourseattle.tumblr.com has passed 1,000 followers on Tumblr.

I originally started the site as a place to post pictures of Seattle with Jason, that we had taken on our phones, and a place to reblog the pictures of the few Seattle area people I followed on Tumblr. I picked up a couple dozen followers, and then a couple more. I posted infrequently and the growth that I genuinely didn't care about plateaued.

Then I decided to ask if anyone would want to contribute and help post items. 5 people responded and they were all added. One guy in particular took to posting items by storm, reblogging from items tagged Seattle.

The problem with reblogging, and Tumblr, and Flickr and the entire internet is that a vast majority of the content that gets posted to this site is reposted from other Tumblr sites that post the images from a Flickr page marked All Rights Reserved, if there's a link back anywhere at all. I know by ignoring it, and ignoring posting items to the site I'm silently approving of all this unattributed use (and the especially talented art is the most popular) but I'm not sure what else to do but just shut it straight down and lose it all.

This is what keeps me up at night. And that picture up there is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons, by the way.