Tag: microblog

Microblogging

Apparently, microblogging is getting more and more popular these days. As far as I can tell, the theory behind it is that people are busy, they don’t have time to sit down and write a long blog post. In a way, that makes sense. On the other hand, who says you need to blog ten times a day? A while back I read about some people doing ‘slow blogging’ – quality blogging, not quanity. That too, makes sense.

Being the sad, lonely misfit that I am, I don’t have that much to say, when it comes to ‘what are you doing?’. If I were to really microblog, it would be mainly things like ‘I’m sitting here at the computer’ ‘Just got back from a walk’, ‘Had dinner. It was delicious’. Boring. Pathetic.

That reminds me of an even newer thing – nanoblogging. One word at a time. Brilliant? Trendy? Cool? Poetic? Maybe, but pretentious and snobbish are words that spring to mind. Meaningless too. In my book. But maybe it’s something you get used to.

All this hasn’t stopped me from getting no fewer than five (I think) microblogs (not nanoblogs) and I’m doing my best to keep up. At least I will, as long as it feels fun.

What do you think? Should I give nanoblogging a chance too? Here is a nanoblog site (I haven’t tried it, but I found it when I did a Dogpile search.)

More about tumblelogs

Now that I’ve tried Soup, I can say that for me it works like a cooler version of FriendFeed (or Multiply – but without the annoying ads). It collects posts from other sites, which can be convenient if you have friends and family who would like to keep up with what you’re doing. Of course, it’s also possible to use it like any tumblelog. I haven’t had mine for long, but I’ll keep exploring it and see what else it can do.

Tumblr (for me) is a great ‘scrapbook’ – in my case a photoblog (though like I mentioned before, I also like to post links and other shorter entries). To be honest, it took me a while to figure out how to use it, but when I did, I fell in love with it. It’s so – creative and do-it-yourself, compared to more evolved blogging platforms like WordPress or LiveJournal. I still haven’t tried Publr or Plurk. In fact, I still haven’t figured out exactly what Plurk is and what use I might have for it, if any.

Tumblelogs

I recently read a blog post about what microblogging is. It mentioned Twitter and Jaiku. From what I’ve read, those belong to one type of microblog. There’s at least one other type, the tumblelog. A tumblelog is sort of a scrapbook, where ‘ordinary’ blogs are diaries/journals or even a sort of homepage (which in itself can be a lot of things, for instance a sort of business card).

I have a tumblelog on Tumblr, which I use mainly as a photoblog, but where I also post links and other shorter posts that I wouldn’t put on a ‘traditional’ blog. There are also others of roughly the same type, like Publr and Plurk (which is also a kind of social network, but then so are all to some extent). There’s also something called Soup, which is more or less a similar thing.