Part of me wants to ditch this particular project. Part of me wants to push myself to write more. About slow gardening (get to know the dirt) and open newsrooms and (lately, again) games.
But … Tumblr.
@embell said Tumblr is for people who don’t like to write — I’m not sure that’s totally true, but there’s a strange format to conversations there, a format that I like.
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Maybe I should take another look at tumblr. I don’t really spend time there other than on the occasional quirky photo/image tumblog. I don’t often see longer form writing or link-focused sharing/discussion. I want something sort of between like a cross between Google Reader’s old “share” feature & Facebook for sharing meatier links (w/ commentary or pull quotes) & longer form writing; separate from the Facebook snacky everydaylifeness (which is fine, in controlled doses), twitter noise and that same xkcd comic we all just saw. I guess what I want is just a blog? Should I check out Tumblr? Is it good for that sort of thing?
I don’t totally know. I’ve stopped looking at my RSS reader altogether, because my friends don’t blog and I’ve filled it with “you should be reading this” type clutter. So without Facebook I might have completely some significant updates about a friend’s health. Among other things.
I have a lot of Tumblrs.
http://amandabees.tumblr.com/
http://moreia.tumblr.com/
http://nomadly.tumblr.com/
http://pickledcarrots.tumblr.com/
http://jour72312.tumblr.com/
http://cs101.tumblr.com/
http://keepyoungandbeautiful.tumblr.com/
We can talk about why I feel the need to segregate my musings on feminism in a blog all their own.
Tumblr is definitely Yet Another Proprietary Format, but I like to compartmentalize my own self, and I like the way conversations happen on Tumblr. People do put disqus on their tumblr blogs, but you have to come in the front door to see that the comments are there at all, and as far as I can tell everyone comes through the alley out back. So if I want to comment on a post of yours, I reblog it and add my two cents. In that way, it feels a bit like a Facebook timeline.