Posts tagged tumblr

Tumblr & Disqus not good for PostRank

I would love to be AdAge’s Top150 blogs. Wouldn’t that be fine?

Alas, it will never be. I use Tumblr for my blogging platform and Disqus for my comments. Two platforms which don’t seem to support PostRank, which AdAge uses.

It’s such a shame that in this advanced age, anything else than Wordpress doesn’t work. C’mon guys, support PostRank!

Tumblr v Posterous

One of our fantastic new PPC Managers at Swamp has posted a blog about Posterous.

Tumblr is perfect for me, but I’m keen to see what the differences are between the two systems. I have noticed quite a few people using both. Posterous for their blog and Tumblr to signpost to it.

There are many upsides to Tumblr, but the downsides include difficult optimising for SEO. Is Posterous any better? What does everyone think of Posterous versus Tumblr?

On the subject, and etiquette, of reblogging

Very good questions from sharanam:

Recently a book was published by Soren Gordhamer (you can read a bunch of his commentaries at The Huffington Post) called Wisdom 2.0. The first annual Wisdom 2.0 Conference convened just last month and the concept of mindfulness is starting to come into the mainstream of social media dialogue…

I’m quite sure that there have been relevant discussions elsewhere on Tubmlr on this topic, and please point us to the post / thread if you know of any good ones. But now that even WordPress has added features to facilitate re-blogging, and it’s likely to become a very standard 2.0 term even outside of the Tumblr context, I’m curious what people’s thoughts are on the following (please don’t be shy!):

• Do you think that you should search Tumblr before posting something to make sure someone else hasn’t already posted it?
• If more than one of the people on your dashboard posts something, do you always provide attribution for both or do you just go to the most recent OR the original poster? Do you even think about it? 
• Do you think that if someone finds something on another person’s Tumblr that they should always give the original poster credit even if it’s not original content?
• Do you always provide a reference for quotes/text culled from articles found on the web? (Your answer should probably be consistent with above ;-D )
• Do you think any of this even matters?

I’ve seen some votes against reblogging (e.g. ‘we will just get lots of the same content everywhere’ and ‘Google will pull you up for duplicate content’). Both arguments are valid, however I always see the same content everywhere with a slightly different spin, it’s usually what most news outlets do isn’t it? copy, paste, amend, publish? Ok, not always, but you get what I meant.

I am a big fan of reblogging. On finding Tumblr, it has been one of the joys of using it. Most of the reblogs I do are diagrams, infographics or photos…not whole pieces of text (erm, apart from this one?!) - if I do reblog a whole article, I try to add my comments on too…add some value - if not, only post it as a link. That’s just sign-posting, not copying.

Attribution, now there is a difficult question…everyone seems to do it differently. I wonder if a sort of Creative Commons for blogging will arise….?

Trying this Tumblr ‘thing’… (part 2)

So, my first post a month or so ago was that I’m trying out Tumblr. My previous blog was on Wordpress and when I switched hosting, it got a little messed up. I stumbled across Tumblr and thought I’d try it out.

The verdict? I love it.

Don’t get me wrong…I’m not saying it’s better than Wordpress. Wordpress is an amazing content management system, never mind blogging platform. It SEOs like magic and is very easy to customise…amongst many other great attributes.

So, why do I like Tumblr so much? Well, I’m not a massive writer. I’ve got friends and co-workers that write fantastic prose…they are funny, eloquent and far better at writing full-on blog posts than me. I mostly like to share quotes I’ve heard/read, presentations and links, infographics and beautiful photos. Tumblr makes it a little less daunting to just send out snippets. I guess it’s inbetween Twitter and Wordpress.

Tumblr doesn’t SEO as well…but at least I’m actually posting content, instead of leaving it for ages, thinking of updating my blog as a task. Now, when I find something I just copy, paste, write a few lines and publish. I’m going to play around with the SEO after I’ve got more published…which will be update no. 3  :)*

* smiley face soley for Leah’s benefit

Trying this Tumblr ‘thing’…

I’ve been on Wordpress for a while…and let’s face it, I’m too damn busy to write lots. Looking for something a bit snappier….maybe Tumblr is the answer?