The state of tumblr...

I am writing this as a follow up to a tumblr post I submitted a few weeks ago titles “Say No to long tumblr posts”, in hind sight it wasn’t the most appropriate title quite simply because that wasn’t the point I was attempting to put across and with the increasing number of comments related to it I feel it’s in my best interest if I explain myself.

So far as I understand it tumblr began as a micro-blogging platform growing up in the same pond as the likes of twitter. The one thing that makes tumblr stand out is that its posts are organized based upon type of content rather than arbitrary categories and/or tags. This appealed to me and upon signing up I began to figure out how to innovativly utilize this new online “tool”. I eventually decided upon using it as another distribution point for my blog as recently I had been posting just images or very short text only posts and didn’t want them clogging up or distracting from the interesting article posts so these short posts would go on tumblr and everything else would go on the blog. This works for me and as I just post image or text only tumblr posts I decided to have them primarily shown on my blog and syndicated on tumblr so I could continue my involvement with the community there, a result of that has been the development of a tumblr plugin for wordpress so no I don’t believe that tumblr should be restricted to any one single idea, it is just another medium, channel of distribution, tool or what ever you choose to label it and I have used it in my own unique way just like many others have.

With all that said, I would like to see a trunication of posts in the dashboard so it doesn’t get clogged up with huge tumblrs, showing the first 300 or so words from the post with the option to view more would be useful and that was my original point although looking back I can see I didn’t put it across very well, or at all by the looks of it…