21st
An experiment
I started blogging way back in July of 2002 when Salon started hosting blogs. I’ve migrated between blogging platforms several times in the intervening years but have always found myself blogging in fits and starts. I’d post daily for months at a time, and then go months without a peep. I’ve noticed something recently though — Instrumenting my online activities with tools like Del.icio.us, Flickr, Co.mments, and Last.fm, has been a more reliably consistent source of information about what I’m doing, thinking, looking at and listening to than what I might think to sit down and blog about.
Therefore, after flirtations with several other options, I’m going to give tumblr a try, and see if something interesting can be made out of collecting all of my online activities in one place, interspersed with the occasional traditional blogging.
I’ll still be covering the same ground, politics, Colorado, music, movies and nerdolotry. I’ll just be doing it in a more relaxed and natural way — hopefully resulting in more consistent output.
If you’re looking for the old blog, it can still be found here, but I’ll be focusing my efforts on tumblr for the foreseeable future. The RSS feed URL has changed if you use a newsreader.
One last note. You’ll notice that tumblr doesn’t support comments. This is a conscious choice on their part, and mine.
We absolutely understand the value of a web site being an interactive experience. That said, we, and many of our users, don’t believe “comments”, as they are currently being applied on blogs, will enhance the tumblelog experience. That’s not a cop-out though. We’re staging several experimental interfaces for user feedback. Lots of neat things to come. We promise!
There are plenty of places for folks to express themselves online, so I don’t really see a need to host a forum here which needs to be patrolled for spam. If you don’t already know how to get in touch with me and feel a need to provide some feedback, write it up in your own blog here at tumblr or elsewhere, and tag it with for:wozz at del.icio.us.
