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!
Okay, I did that very Sam-thing (as I’ve been told) and created a feed from your wordpress blog so I can read it on LJ. (bittertweeonwp is the name I chose haha). So now I can read your randomness on a regular basis (and believe me, I come home and read my flist every single night, no matter how long it takes!)
Oh, btw, did you see the X Files teaser poster is out? I saw it at the theater on Sunday. Its going to be a train wreck, I don’t want to watch but I have to see!!!!
Comment by orangerful — April 14, 2008 @ 8:39 pm |
yay, glad you’ve got me in the pipeline! Sorry about the comments (I’m assuming you won’t get this via email or a feed?)- I guess I’ll keep having conversations with you on lj.
Just caught Gillian hosting Masterpiece Theater- I’m always surprised to see her pop up on PBS.
Comment by bittertwee — April 14, 2008 @ 10:42 pm |
Live journal is bad for leaving comments if you are not a LJ person or have an OpenID on your site (which I don’t). Anyway. Hope the transition wasn’t too traumatic. I’ve got you updated on the blogroll!
Comment by jeanerz — April 15, 2008 @ 3:27 pm |
@jeanerz- yep, that’s the drawback to lj comments, definitely. But I like responding to comments, and I hate not knowing if the person I’m responding to will even see my response. (It looks like wordpress has set something up so wp people can track comment threads they’ve commented on, so that’s cool. I haven’t completely looked into the comment options, so maybe there are other cool features I’m missing.)
Also it’s difficult to track what’s a comment to what. I’m using the @name method at the moment.. don’t know if there’s a better way..
Don’t know if you’re into scrabulous, btw. Namey might be up for a game.
Comment by bittertwee — April 15, 2008 @ 11:24 pm |