Comments on: Tumblr Reconsidered

By: on the existence of Tumblr, of Hogwarts, and of Awesomeness « raincoaster

on the existence of Tumblr, of Hogwarts, and of Awesomeness « raincoaster — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:32:45 +0000

[...] sphere of the interwebs known as Tumblr. And as oft as I have been asked, I have either answered or have asked for cash dollars upfront. But here, ladies and gentlemen and the undecided, here at [...]

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Thu, 26 May 2011 22:38:31 +0000

That’s a pretty cool association. The artist whose work the icon is based on just started following me on Twitter, and that was pretty awesome.

Tumblr is a useless blogging platform. It’s primarily used by junior would-be journalists to suck up to New York media figures, who have Tumblrs. I should do a post on that, too.

By: lifewith4cats

lifewith4cats — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:18:33 +0000

hmm this looks really promising to me for the answer to my suggestion in the forums. I don’t know what Tumbler is about but I plan to sign up for is as soon as I leave here. Thanks.

Also it never occured to me to think of an avatar from a heraldry perspective. Thats cool! But I always thought you were a girl because the name makes me thing of a springtime mist over a blue sky, who makes good conversation with drinks in hand. :D

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:53:51 +0000

Oh, I would NEVER recommend Tumblr as a writing platform. It’s purely a storage cabinet for me, and as I get more experience with the appalling state of the search and tagging there, I’m less and less enchanted with it even for this function.

By: Christopher Parsons

Christopher Parsons — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:55:29 +0000

The core thing that tumblr offers over delicious (other than not being part of the Yahoo! Death spiral) is the ability to backdate posts. This is invaluable if you use Tumblr to generate a temporally accurate bookmark history. That said, it’s a pain (or at least was a year ago) to export data in a truly nice format to work with, and integrating Tumblr with third-party social networks (*cough wordpress*) can be a bitch. I don’t count iFrames as a nice external presentation mechanism I’m really not sold on Tumblr just yet (for the kinds of writing and social media that I engage with), but that might just be because I’m so used to the functionality provided by my non-WP.com wordpress install that I’ve customized over the years.