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"Welcome to our tenth\u00A0Tumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr by interviewing the mastermind behind a blog.\u00A0Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is\u00A0like the FFFFound for the rest of the world.\u00A0It\u2019s as shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more in-depth text and rich images.\r\n\r\nOn September 9th, 2011,\u00A0we reported\u00A0that at an average of 37.5 million daily posts, Tumblr reached its first mega milestone of 10 billion posts. Like Facebook, Twitter and other forms of public communication, Tumblr can be used as a tool to spread political messages, even from countries cut off from social media. The North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-il, also referred to as &amp;quot;Supreme Leader, &amp;quot;Dear Leader&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;our Father&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;the General&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Generalissimo&amp;quot; has wreaked havoc on his suffering nation. This is a man who may or may not have killed his brother as a 5-year-old child, and is now considered by Forbes to be one of the most powerful people in the world as he leads the world's 4th largest army.\u00A0His country's people may never know Tumblr, Facebook or Twitter. In fact, according to a New Yorker report in 2009, most North Koreans had never heard of the Internet.\r\n\r\nWith oppression not far from our minds, we still find time to laugh at the sunglass sporting, pint-sized dictator who is obviously out of his mind. Undoubtedly, one of the most famous and most loved Tumblr blogs is Kim Jong il Looking at Things, which was founded one year ago by a 26-year old\u00A0Portuguese\u00A0guy named\u00A0JR and has over 50,000 followers. In fact, when you search for &amp;quot;kim jong-il&amp;quot; on Google, his Tumblr is the 3rd result.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCBM: Who is the man behind Kim Jong-il looking at things?\r\n\r\nJR: This is gonna be the most boring answer you've gotten. I'm just a\u00A0regular guy, honestly. I'm 26 and I do what every regular,\u00A0well-adjusted 26-year-old does, which involves lots of things I'll\u00A0probably regret in 15 years.\r\n\r\nCBM: Where do you live and what's your day job?\r\n\r\nJR: I was born and live in Lisbon, Portugal and I work as an art director\u00A0for Y&amp;amp;amp;R Lisbon, an ad agency, which is completely unrelated to the\u00A0blog (this isn't some fancy viral campaign, honest).\r\n\r\nCBM: What inspired you to start the blog? And when did you start it?\r\n\r\nJR: It started in late October last year, so the first anniversary is\u00A0almost coming up. It began after I saw a very hypnotic gallery on Kim\u00A0Jong-il in the Boston Globe's The Big Picture. It struck me as odd how\r\nthese pictures were passing as propaganda, and so I registered the\u00A0blog. It took me a while to start because I wasn't really sure if I\u00A0could get enough pictures to make it last more than a couple of\u00A0months.\r\n\r\nCBM: What are your general feelings towards the man?\r\n\r\nJR: There's an underlying satire to the blog, so I don't hold any positive\u00A0views on him. The fact that I make fun of his image and get a laugh\u00A0out of it doesn't make me forget the oppression he enforces on his\u00A0people and the fear he spreads in the region. But I'm a firm believer\u00A0that either everything's ok to make fun of, or nothing is. Truth is\u00A0I'm just one dude, so there's little I can to do actually change the\u00A0status quo, so I get to do the next thing after that.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCBM: How many total photos have you posted so far?\r\n\r\nJR: 204 or something. I keep an archive of pictures to post in the future\u00A0as well, just to be safe.\r\n\r\nCBM: How many Tumblr followers do you have?\r\n\r\nJR: About 50,000 follow the blog on Tmblr and 31,000 are Facebook Fans.\r\n\r\nCBM: Have you had any awesome experiences because of your Tumblr blog?\r\n\r\nJR: I still haven't gotten laid because of it. Is that what you mean by\u00A0awesome experiences?\r\n\r\nCBM: What are your 5 favorite KJI photos?\r\n\r\nJR: No actual favorites but I do enjoy the ones he's smiling. Doesn't\u00A0happen often but those pictures actually humanize him for a fraction\u00A0of a second. There's a sort of cognitive dissonance in there, which\u00A0makes them even funnier.\r\n\r\nCBM: What Webby Award are you up for and how can our readers help?\r\n\r\nJR: I entered the Weird category (seemed like the ideal place) which cost\u00A0$150. It was a bit more than what I could afford so I asked readers if\u00A0they would be so kind to contribute and they were awesome in turn. I\r\ngot enough after just 48 hours. Right now I'm waiting for the deadline\u00A0to close and after that, if the blog is nominated, I'll just need to\u00A0count on everybody's vote to help me snatch a People's Choice Award,\u00A0but we're getting ahead of ourselves here.\r\n\r\nCBM: What other projects do you run online that we should know about?\r\n\r\nJR: I don't run other Tumblrs but I do have a side-project about cool\u00A0stuff I find online -- I Like It What Is It?-- I know, I know...\u00A0as if the world really needed another blog like that... but I enjoy sharing stuff.\r\n\r\nFor more from JR, follow him @inoffensive on Twitter.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCheck out our Tumblr Tuesday from weeks\u2019 past:\r\n\r\n\tMeet the man behind \u201CAnimals Being Dicks\u201D\r\n\tLoot-alikes matches London looters with their celebrity counterparts\r\n\tFoodspotting\u2019s Amy Cao picks her top 5 Tumblrs for foodies\r\n\tThe Fax Blog takes submissions by fax (only if you have the secret #)\r\n\tStocking is the new Planking\r\n\tF*ck You Yelper takes down one critic at a time\r\n\tHungover Owls\r\n\tPaper Tissue\r\n\tCAPTCHArt\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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