Tumblelog: A Snapshot in Each Post

by Laura on December 29, 2008

in blogging, web publishing, web writing

I’ve come across a new plan in the way of blog­ging. It’s about using sim­ple, short posts and then keep­ing your blog sim­ple and to the point. Tum­blel­ogs are like cre­at­ing a snap­shot in each post. The over­all blog is a scrap­book ver­sus a news­pa­per or full fledged novel.

Theme Play­ground had the post I read which includes tem­plate reviews. I picked out three to try after the hol­i­days: Artueel, Elite and Tum­blelog. If you want to have a tum­blelog out­side of your usual blog have a look at Tum­blr or Gelato CMS to add it to Word­Press. I found two other blog­gers writ­ing about tum­blel­ogs: Tum­blr, a dif­fer­ent way to blog and Tum­blel­og­ging: don’t think about it, just write.

From Wikipedia: A tum­blelog (also known as a tlog or tum­blog) is a vari­a­tion of a blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer edi­to­r­ial posts fre­quently asso­ci­ated with blog­ging. Com­mon post for­mats found on tum­blel­ogs include links, pho­tos, quotes, dia­logues, and video. Unlike blogs, tum­blel­ogs are fre­quently used to share the author’s cre­ations, dis­cov­er­ies, or expe­ri­ences while pro­vid­ing lit­tle or no commentary.

Other links of inter­est:
The Tum­blers on Ning Social Net­work.
Tum­blr users on Face­book.
Tum­blr Hacks
Tum­blr Day but it was only done once, Sep­tem­ber 2007, so far.

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