One of the things I have been working with lately is putting things on my Tumblr blog. I have absolutely been appreciating the unique way that Tumblr does what it does. My favorite thing about it, possibly the biggest reason I have been using it, is that it lets you queue up posts and release them on a schedule. My schedule is that one post gets released every two hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, which means that about six things get published each day. Right now, I have about 6 days’ worth of items in the queue, which means that I’m able to spend maybe a half an hour or an hour each day putting new things up as I see them, and then the momentum of my Tumblr site doesn’t decrease, in terms of having new content every day.
The Tumblr site is also useful for a lot of different things. One things being posted right now is the photos from my vacation with Megan to visit art schools in California. There were maybe 70 photos in that group, and one of the things I love about Tumblr, as compared to Flickr or Twitter or my regular blog here on stenoweb.net, which all tend to be well-suited to specific types of content, but not others. As an example, I can post photos to Flickr (although only a certain number of them at any given time) and they are presented in a very logical way. Similarly, I can post 140-character instant status updates to twitter, and those work out pretty well. And finally, I can put long-form things, essays and such, on my traditional blog web site, which also has good facilities for the management of static content on a collection of regular pages. And finally, I do have a site built out of static HTML pages, but there are just a bunch of disadvantages to that.
So, what’s the point of all of that? Well, the odd thing is that even though each of these many avenues for posting information is very effective for its area of specialty, none of them is necessarily a shining bastion of absolute perfection, Flickr I don’t even use as often as twitter and my blog, and both of those tend to get cross-updates with my Tumblr account as it is anyway. Although I haven’t yet considered exactly how or why, I have indeed considered that I may at some point want to move my main blogging experience to a site like Tumblr.
For now, however, most of my big project-style postings go onto the blog and smaller things get dumped to the end of the Tumblr queue, but we’ll see what happens as I move into the future and start defining what I really want to do with my blog. (Which you’d think after so many years I’d know, but ah well.)