Comments on: Putting The Why In Tumblr

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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:31:40 +0000

[...] images, that sort of thing. I don’t know why I even have it. But I do like it. I blame Will and Guy, honestly. Somehow, I am captivated by its Zen simplicity and ease. Do I need it? Jesus, [...]

By: Will

Will — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:15:39 +0000

The reasons I ultimately didn’t switch to Tumblr altogether:

1. I had just put in time refining this WP template.
2. Importing all of my cataloged posts didn’t seem possible.
3. My ISP wasn’t hip to pointing my URL at Tumblr for some reason.

The simplicity on the back end is awfully nice, and there are some really stellar templates ready to use. (I’d love to design a Tumblr template sometime, too.) The network can be ignored, and may well ignore you, depending on who you know and who follows you.

By: Jeff Tidball

Jeff Tidball — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:17:34 +0000

If you’re not familiar with Tumblr, it’s easy to look at it and come away shrugging.

:: Raises hand ::

That’d be me, although this post—and your use of Tumblr over time—has made it seem less and less shrug-worthy. Given that I’m clearly never going to find time to push the boulder over the hill and blog at jefftidball.com again, I’ve been thinking about Tumblr as a (temporary?) replacement.

But it still feels like one more inbox to check, too. I don’t feel like I need another social network; I’m pretty sure I’ve got one (or more) too many as it stands.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:32:03 +0000

I’ll love Tumblr and how easy it is to use.
It can be advanced if you want to host it on your own domain. (For those of you who like that kind of thing.)

By: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:43:20 +0000

Just last night I was trying to understand the appeal of Tumblr — de-licio.us + MySpace? Longform Twitter? LiveJournal + ADHD? It seemed to come down to its community, and I didn’t feel like any of my communities were there, but I’m intrigued by your take on it.

I’m using Posterous, sporadically, as a personal blog, but it’s purely functional; “just the facts ma’am” vs. Tumblr’s “warm & fuzzy”, as Debbie Stier described it. I’m going to give it another look now.