Dumblr
I’ve noticed average post length on Tumblr has gone down tremendously. It’s tidbits that show up on my Dashboard nowadays, not bigbits.
Reading back on some of my older posts, I realized I’m doing the same thing. I spout a short thought or repost a picture and add a line or two, and you know what? I don’t think that’s what I thought I would do with Tumblr.
Used to be a Livejournal/Blogger user, and for a while I fed those into Tumblr along with some of my other RSS-related content (comics, Twitter) and used this thing as sort of an aggregator of all my online doings and beings. Then the blogging stopped, the livejournaling stopped, and I quit my webcomic. I rarely tweet, and if I do it’s usually about something random and ineffectual.
Instead, Tumblr has become my only vein of creation that bleeds onto the net. It’s become my blogging surrogate, my journal, and my comic-posting ground. All in one spot, only it all comes from here - not from other places like before.
Posts should be longer, more substantive. I don’t want to use Tumblr like the rest of the people I follow, and their daily life-status updates. I don’t want to reblog funny pictures or quotes. I don’t want to wonder why my Tumblarity is at 15 when it was at 20 five minutes ago. There’s so much more potential here, so much more intelligence I’m wasting on stupidity instead.
This might be my last post for a while.
