Monday, October 29, 2007

Tumblelogs

A tumblelog is a kind of micro-blogging platform that favors quick 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, this format is frequently used to share the author's creations, discoveries, or experiences without providing a commentary. I'm becoming quite enamored of this form lately; for me it's acting a bit like a kind of blogging del.icio.us + twitter; i'm currently friends with only one person jtneil who is also tumbleloging about educational technology. From my brief investigation Tumblr seems the best platform currently available and even at this early stage has some very simple features available. I can see this progressing into text messaging capabilities quite quickly and making Twitter look obsolete. I need more friends on the platform to really test it out, so if you're interested create a Tumblr account and look for me ... pumicehead.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well....anyway I wish I understood all this new fangled technology stuff? Still I just about get by with email! Just wanted to say it was much easier to talk to you in the flesh than to understand what your writing about.... Anyway enjoyed your company on saturday and thanks for the lift. Hope you both got home without an encounter with the boys in blue. I'm sure our paths will cross again sometime soon, I mean its a small island........ cheerio

Alison