Tumblelog
A tumblelog is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, this format is frequently used to share the author's creations, discoveries, or experiences without providing a commentary. One of the many tumblelog sevices is tumblr.
The term "tumblelog" was coined by Why the lucky stiff in a blog post on April 12th, 2005, while describing Chris Neukirchen's Anarchaia. This makes Anarchaia the first official tumblelog.
Jason Kottke described tumblelogs on October 19th, 2005:
A tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream of consciousness, a bit like a remaindered links style linklog but with more than just links. They remind me of an older style of blogging, back when people did sites by hand, before Movable Type made post titles all but mandatory, blog entries turned into short magazine articles, and posts belonged to a conversation distributed throughout the entire blogosphere. Robot Wisdom and Bifurcated Rivets are two older style weblogs that feel very much like these tumblelogs with minimal commentary, little cross-blog chatter, the barest whiff of a finished published work, almost pure editing...really just a way to quickly publish the "stuff" that you run across every day on the web
See also
External links
- The Tumblelist is a directory cataloging new tumblelogs as they appear.
- Tumblr is a free service for creating tumblelogs.
- Gelato CMS is an open source CMS for creating tumblelogs.
- Tumblepedia is a wiki and forum resource for tumbleloggers.
- chittR Alpha: Creating live conversations, the Indian way.
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