I recently discovered Tumblr, which is basically just another blogging forum. The best description I can come up with is it's Blogging Lite. Or maybe Twitter on steroids ;-) Basically, a happy medium between the 140-character-max text-only Twitter soundbites and the lengthy, detailed ruminations of blogland.
I've also discovered that I'm more apt to update when I have a vehicle through which to deliver smaller, bite-sized chunks that somehow seem too insignificant for a regular blog. Sometimes an interesting link or quote will catch my eye, or I'll have a few words to say, but it's hardly worth signing into Blogger to write about. Twitter is too restrictive for that kind of sharing. And Facebook's current layout has a tendency to drown everything out anyway.
So, I was pleased to find the perfect vehicle for my thoughts-- Tumblr! A place to share those bite-sized chunks according to category: text, link, quote, chat, image, video or audio.
If this blog seems too quiet at times, it's probably because I've been busy updating there:
http://hellykwee.tumblr.com
I've only been signed up on that site for a week and already I have more posts there than I have here for the past few months!
Of course, I'll still post here for my longer diatribes and fun stuff like the Friday Five :-) Different types of sharing are best suited to different types of venues, I've learned.
So... if ever you're really bored, come over and watch me "Tumbl" through cyberspace :-D
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