{"id":880,"date":"2008-01-09T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2008-01-09T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T03:55:09","slug":"reasons-for-using-tumblr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for Using Tumblr"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think it’s interesting how blogging has evolved and regressed at the same time. I remember when Blogger<\/a> was a lot like how Tumblr<\/a> is now. Remember? Back in the day, you had to use a third party commenting thingie in order to allow comments on your blog. Blogs were so simple then. As time progressed new features were added, making blogs more and more complex. The nice thing about Tumblr is that it allows you to easily post pictures, music, and videos without having to do any messy HTML coding. It reminds me of the good, ol’ days when blogs were really, really simple.<\/p>\n

Of course, my blogging platform of choice is WordPress<\/a>. Obviously, this blog is still on WordPress. I like all the plug-ins. There’s plenty of room in my heart for bells and whistles. Besides, this blog makes money. Not a lot, but some. Enough for lunches, anyway. So we have to keep this blog as it is and not mess with it.<\/p>\n

This blog isn’t well suited to short updates, though. That’s where Twitter<\/a> comes in. I post short updates in Twitter. Some classify it as a micro-blogging tool, but it’s not quite. I mean, you can’t really say much in 140 characters. Tumblr bridges the gap between Twitter and WordPress. In my mind Twitter is on one end of the spectrum, WordPress is on the other end, and Tumblr is somewhere in between.<\/p>\n

While it’s not likely that I’ll be moving Life After Marriage to Tumblr, it is growing on me. Here are just a few of the reasons why:<\/p>\n