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- Essen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13geekitechture: I'm afraid I don't get this. Blogs are simply a different form -- wordy and editorial. That's great for the writers among us (which I'll assume you are, considering you're comfortable hammering out three paragraphs in a comment box), but it doesn't account for the other 90% of web users that also have something to share and don't care to set aside an hour to blogging each night.
Blogging is a different tool. I wouldn't write-off tumblelogs just because the form doesn't fit you. They're also terribly fun to read when it's a friend or someone interesting. The backlog of multi-paragraph blog posts building up in my RSS reader is rarely more than a burden.
On them being ugly -- project.ioni.st is worlds more charming than any WP or MT blog on the web today. - DoctorOther, on 11/01/2007, -2/+10I love Tumblr. The one thing I wish it had was comments. Maybe it seems litke a feature not fitting to the tumblelog barebones ideal, but I think comments and feedback are one of the best parts of any social site.
- cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@geekitechture:
I disagree. My reason why is given in my tumblelog spam: http://cinnix.tumblr.com/post/121022
:) - betobeto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@geekitechture - You are just not getting it, I'm afraid. For me, tumblelogs are something like a fresh return to the original blog concept before the whole thing got too "editorialized", too "blogstarish", and too overwhelming in general. I did the blogging thing for many years, and got some recognition in my area because of it... but I had fallen prey to the "editorializing" bug. I felt as if every time I was to post something I was under the pressure of coming up with something worthy of a newspaper column, with a catchy title, research a lot of links to prove points, etc. Too much time consuming and the Adsense earnings didn't justify the tremendous effort. And my free time only seems to shrink more and more these days.
A friend of mine showed me Tumblr a while ago and I love it. Now I have a "tumblelog" there where I just post interesting liks with a short punchline, which I've always liked to do. I don't care if anyone else reads it or not - I do it just for fun. And I think that's where Tumblr comes in: it's allowed me to rediscover the fun in blogging again.
You could say Tumblr is something like the blogging tool for jaded old school bloggers, or something like that. - Kaobear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7A simple and effective tool.
- reenum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Exactly what I've been looking for. I don't do too many long form posts, but want a place where I can share interesting links, pics, and make an occasional short post.
- miraclebaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7also, you can have it consume your feed of "dugg" stories and they will show up as items in your tumblelog. their feed consumption setup is incredibly slick -- del.icio.us, flickr, twitter, you name it.
- alecks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6They really need to add a way to let people who view your blog, CONTACT YOU in some way. Currently, if I view anyone's tubleblog, there's no way for me to contact them... and what's the point in blogging, if your readers can't tell you how awesome you are
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10They forgot the "e"!
- Suck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7More notable Tumblr tumblelogs, in case you're curious:
Leo Laporte: http://tumbleo.com/
Merlin Mann: http://merlin.tumblr.com/
David Karp and Marco Arment, Tumblr developers: http://www.davidslog.com/ and http://marco.tumblr.com/ - thejitters, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is great. Tumblr (stupid Web 2.0 name) provides a good opportunity to post stuff without worrying about lots of formatting or even blog setup. Just sign up and post. Good for storing little "chunks" of good stuff you find on the 'Net. Nice find.
- necrodome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4in case of they are tracking digg comments and taking action,
commenting is what we need, please! - unununium, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Finally, a way for weblogs to have even less content.
- miraclebaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5they make it easy to use their service with your domain: http://jerry.tumblr.com/ becomes http://tumblelog.jerryr.com/
- emilgh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5There's something really fun here. http://emilgh.tumblr.com
- shawnblog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Although I'm not keen on the name, tumblr rocks. I've shed my blog.
Now, RSS of all the places I comment or get comments (mainly Flickr) are fed to my tumblr along with random stuff I "blog" with the tumblr bookmarklet and it's on display as my blog at http://www.shawnblog.com/ - Phipman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I've been using tumblog for quite some while now. Easy and efficient, with mobile picture uploads too!
You can check out the skin that I'm using or get some idea from my blog - philsquared.tumblr.com - Suck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You're right. You win the internet.
- riotnumber9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Tumblr is fantastic. The best way it was described to me was "if a blog is a newspaper, a tumblelog is a scrap book."
There's a lot of people saying these are stupid and what not - but on the blogging side they are a low-impact pleasure.
shameless plug: http://lifeinfoc.us - HaltingPoint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Out of curiosity, does anybody know how search engines react to these? Are they popular enough in terms of page rank where we will see a lot of "niche" tumblelogs? Do they draw good AdSense traffic since they lack text for the most part?
- logic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, the markup is editable... ;)
- plasticbugs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I work with the the Tumblr guys. They're brilliant and always put their users first. Way to go, Davidville!
- fjf314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"... but I had fallen prey to the "editorializing" bug. I felt as if every time I was to post something I was under the pressure of coming up with something worthy of a newspaper column..."
I completely agree with you. I had a blog for a few years, but eventually it just got to the point where I had to invest more time than I was willing (or had) into it. Tumblr looks pretty slick to me because there are still days where I think up interesting topics where I can write on and on. There are other days, though, where I have short snippets of things that I want to put online somewhere, but don't want to/can't devote the time it would take to write out a traditional blog entry. - hookshotzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i love tumblr
http://ideas.tumblr.com - socialwebtools, on 06/19/2008, -0/+2They do have comments now =)
- blasphemy3000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Nice!!
- sixlaneve, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I love this tool! I moved my entire blog to tumblr
- socialwebtools, on 06/19/2008, -0/+1I love Tumblr so much! Yesterday I finally switched my blog on my own domain over to my Tumblog. =)
http://layoutsbychacha.info - Suck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have to admit, I was not anticipating this. Too bad we can't rate comments for humor here...
- benlindelof, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's funny, I just made the Aquarium for my own use, but I provided it as Open Source. I got a lot of feedback from people and some people really liked it. But I wasn't really happy with how The Aquarium turned out... it seemed like it needed something (more controls wasn't the answer).
I found this one, and I also found Twitter. All three are basically the same. Here's a great review of "this technology" from Stan Schroeder at mashable.com: (I agree 100%. It was just an exercise and I the feedback was well worth it)
"I have a confession to make. I’ve used Twitter, and I wrote about it a lot, but I never could quite understand why it’s so damn limited. Instant-blogging aside, it’s web based instant messaging - but it’s done in such an impossibly silly way - you can only send messages to everyone, and people won’t engage in conversations because they have other friends and those friends don’t want to hear your private chat. So, it’s just a bunch of mindless, one-way messages."
Thanks Stan. You nailed it! Congrats. :) - synd04, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sweet. Simple way to store some stuff ... Great to keep track of links, videos, etc when its not terribly convenient (work).
http://today.tumblr.com - withershins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've wanted a way to share stuff I find on this huge Internet of ours but without writing long blogpost. For me this is great, and I probably could have started before, but tumblr makes it so easy so here it goes...
http://beam.to/beanstalk - error, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1tumblr blog with a horror layout
http://killr.tumblr.com - Suck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm speechless.
- krynsky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Another publishing concept that's somewhat related to a Tumbelog that has been growing in popularity is a Lifestream. It's basically a chronological aggregated view of your online activities. It's based on a collection of your personal rss feeds from sites like Flickr, Last.fm, Digg, Twitter, Blog, etc...It's a cool way to passively provide a timeline for you and friends of what you've been up to. People are already thinking of ways to leverage the data as well. I created a page with stories, software and a directory as a resource to learn more about it if you're interested at:
http://krynsky.com/lifestream-could-it-be-the-next-big-thing/ - superpixel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm not a big fan, but I see the appeal after reading Gina's article. Seems like it'd be perfect for rolling your own Fark, honestly.
- benlindelof, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Here's my plea to David after some more appropriate discussion (thanks for the Digg Down guys! You are too predictable :)
David,
Here's what I'm looking for. Some type of acknowledgement. It can be my name, or my Blue Fugu Software branding (the fish is cute).
You wrote regarding: "overlapping functionality" and I believe the simplicity of use was first done by myself.
I created List/Container Intranets before SharePoint was even announced. I'm used to being emulated, but for Tumblr, I'm really interested in it as a Solution.
For instance, I can link to your site as an alternative to Installing The Aquarium. You've covered hosting... let's think of some way to collaborate.
Sincerely,
Ben Lindelof - masskurec, on 03/05/2009, -0/+0tumblr is great, even though i don't use it
http://xptweak.net - crossers, on 07/12/2008, -0/+0it easy to use, and there are some fun here!
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - benlindelof, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1RE: Search Engines and SEO:
I did a lot of testing. Usually there is no lag and the 'related' ads are always found. Sometimes there is a delay of 3-6 days before Google AdWords match the content, but it might be part of the Google Dance behavior. - riotnumber9, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Tumblr is fantastic. The best way it was described to me was "if a blog is a newspaper, a tumblelog is a scrap book."
There's a lot of people saying these are stupid and what not - but on the blogging side they are a low-impact pleasure.
shameless plug: http://lifeinfoc.us - Shriker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Lame name. D:
- srouquette, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Google Reader already does that. Put some feeds in the reader, then "share" the news.
http://www.google.com/reader/view/
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/00749004543864343654 - fsckface, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0flckr?
scribd?
tumblr?
Ths is gettng a lttl old. - alecks, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2And there seem to be a lot of links to the same page. For example.... Title on main page links to iteself... my Dugg News rss feeds... the story headline links to the same rss post, instead of... maybe the digg story?
- geekitechture, on 10/12/2007, -12/+9Guys don't use these things. Tumblelogs are ugly. They're weird. They're devoid of humanity, and look no better than the link logs of the recent past. The limited choice of posting formats means most tumbleloggers mix it up constantly out of bordom, leading to long pages with 20 posts written in 3 or 4 different fonts, with a quote here, a pic there, a few hyperlinks here and there...so it's very schizoid and untogether-looking, as though an author has possibly become unhinged. And they are horrifically boring, there's nothing much to read on them and they don't get a lot of comments...why should they? The authors of them seem perpetually absent just by the very nature of their tumblelog presentation.
Tumblelogs started off among geeks who wrote their own software to create them, and while the concept is interesting, it's not much different from link logs of old, and if this catches on, the complaints of "tumblelog spam" on Digg and elsewhere will probably grow as bad as complaints of "blogspam" ever did.
Digg me down but I'm just trying to look at this objectively. Normal blogging platforms are far superior and offer much more flexibility. - stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"you're comfortable hammering out three paragraphs in a comment box"
Hmm, technically what you wrote could be called three paragraphs also. :D - smacksy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Finally, some way for me to post things online without the hassle of being able to do it any way I want.
Most of these tumblogs look like a third grader learning to use blogger, minus all the pesky "stuff". - realbeandip, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0This looks like the "Mac" of blogs. As if blogs weren't stupid enough already.
I can guarantee the people who created "tumblr" are Mac users - GUARANTEE. - benlindelof, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1RIP-OFF ALERT
I designed The Aquarium in 2004 that Tumblr ripped off. Finally someone is copying me and claiming it as their own! I was anticipating this.
To view the Original Aquarium, visit http://www.bluefugu.info/aquarium
David Allen is 3 years late. Please spread the word of The Aquarium.
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