I gave tumblr a shot for the last month or so, but I just don’t seem to be a microblogger. Tumblr is set up for people to post multiple posts per day from their home, office, coffee shop, or on-the-go with whatever handheld device they happen to own. In my case, there are three problems with this:
1) Show of hands for anyone who wants to hear from me multiple times per day. Anyone? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
2) Although I can get away with blogging while at work, it’s really a bad idea.
3) I’m not an update-on-the-run person. I don’t own anything to update with, nor do I want to. One of the bonuses of being away from home and office is that I’m NOT online.
Now that I’ve come to terms with being a macroblogger, it makes sense to move to a blogging platform with more functionality. So I set up this wordpress blog, imported some of my favorite posts from my old livejournal with 3 readers, and imported my tumblr posts (which took a decent chunk of time, and I still lost all the comments :-( And then, for the heck of it, I set up my wp blog to feed to my tumblr. I ended up letting the lj go, but with some sadness, because their comment system leads to much better conversations, I think. In fact, I’ve had some awesome conversations on lj. Anyway, I could go on about what I see as the pros and cons of each platform, but I’ll leave it there. Ciao!
