For someone who made the switch to an actual blog, is having a tumblelog (via Tumblr) redundant? It was fun as it lasted, as they say.
I use this blog to post personal thoughts and ideas, I use Twitter (@USuMBS) to share daily musings, and I use Engineerography Blog to write about a more topical and public matter. I even use Flickr to organize and share my personal photos. (I have a Picasa Gallery that is dead and a MobileMe Gallery that I am not sure how I should use it. And I don't do videos [yet].)
Then, I aggregate everything to Facebook. I think that's being plenty virtually social. But is there anything else that I should jump on the bandwagon for? I may just give up on finding a niche for my tumblelog. Does anyone actually read it? Hmm.
Monday, July 06, 2009
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I would compare Tumblogs as to real blogs, what netbooks are to laptops. Tumblog occupies the space bewteen Twitter and a full-fledged blog like a netbook lies in the space between a smartphone/pda and a laptop computer.
For the most part, I don't find Tumblogs particularly compelling. Twitter's 140-character limit and mobile nature (*the fact that many people receive SMS Twitter updates and post via SMS) means Twitter is more accessible and widely viewed. This also lends "Tweets" to be more deliberate/carefully thought out (for the most part).
From what I've seen on Tumblog, people generally post random media: images, YouTube videos etc. Most Tumblogs I've seen are just a mashup of internet content without much commentary like a blog would have. Because of this, it seems people don't actively visit a Tumblog as they might a traditional blog.
My point is that these three products coexisting in one environment means too much feature overlap much like how carrying an iPhone, a netbook and a laptop all at once would be overkill. Depending on what your audience, and your message is, you should choose the service that best suits your need. Maybe two, but definitely not all three.
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