I love my Tumblr. It’s probably my favourite blogging service for quick and dirty posting of random stuff I find online and I find a lot of random stuff I want to share. It’s notable that I’ve been consistently posting to it for over a year now as many other social media-type services have fallen from my favour. That says a lot.
I also follow a few other Tumblrs and yesterday put them all in one folder in Google Reader. Oddly there’s only six, and curiously they’re all by women. I don’t think the latter means anything though. Here’s who I’m following right now:
- More(ish) from Meg Pickard.
- Joblr from Jo Geary.
- Cleanskies owns a Tumblr from Jeremy Dennis.
- Arty Type from Candice Smith.
- Careless Gene from Laura Careless.
- Pictures-a-go-go from Anna Mondo.
I like these because, on the whole, they provide me with a constant stream of cool stuff – videos, photos, links, etc – and because I sort of know the people running them so there’s a personal connection. Is anyone else actively running a Tumblr account that I should know of?
http://www.nathansmonk.tumblr.com.
Im a student at BIAD doing Visual Communications and Im keeping a design diary on Tumblr.
There’s mine http://bounder.tumblr.com, Jules’ http://catnip.tumblr.com I follow few, but they’re mixed up so not an easy list to hand
Hydragenic and Link Machine Go are both on there:
http://hydragenic.tumblr.com/
http://lmg.tumblr.com/
Probably loads more. Some tumblr templates show a list of people being followed (like on Twitter) so if people use those it’s pretty useful (I recently switched to one when I went images only)
I started off mainly using it for graphical stuff (I remember once describing it as my Lolcat bookmark system) but more recently I’ve abandoned del.icio.us and I’m using it for quotes too.
I also keep an eye on a couple of long-term blog/IRL friends:
http://caroline.tumblr.com
http://dyfl.tumblr.com
apart from those previously mentioned, I also follow:
http://thedeplorableword.net/
http://graphiquillan.tumblr.com/
http://brendadada.tumblr.com/
http://edgetrinkets.tumblr.com/
http://chrisunitt.tumblr.com/
Is it just me being a bit thick or could tumblr work much better?
The social networky side of tumblr doesn’t seem to work as well as it could. I can’t see a list of the people I follow or who my followees follow. I don’t know who’s following me.
At the moment, the only reason to follow someone is so that you can re-blog their content right?
If someone reblogs some content and adds their own comment or whatever, I struggle to know who wrote what.
It would be nice to have one feed of all my friends’ stuff.
The group thing seemed like a good idea, Jon set one up for BiNS, but it doesn’t seem to have a feed.
I keep meaning to go through the help and make sure I’m not missing anything glaringly obvious. Let me know if you find the answers to any of the above first!
@catnip Personally I just subscribe to Tumblr blogs in Google Reader just as I would any other blog. The following stuff doesn’t really work for me as I’d rather integrate it into my general feed reading.
Tumblr works for me because of its simplicity and the awesome bookmarklet. Anything they might add to it (groups, etc) is safely ignored.
Doesn’t it seem a bit backwards to you that you didn’t know a lot of your friends use tumblr and had to ask?
A group scrapbook would be a fab thing IMO. The BiNS one was intented to draw our attention to stuff we might have missed or for stuff that wouldn’t warrant a full post.
The simplicity of posting is the best thing about it, but there are aspects of it that are not intuitive. I get confused about whether my text (say, for example, a photo caption) becomes a link or just plain text and about who said what on reblogs.
It does seem a little backward and to be honest a lot of the ones listed in the comments I was already aware of, just not subscribed to. I guess I should have really emphasised the “active Tumblr” in my post. I’m wondering who’s really using the thing rather than having set one up and let it go to seed.
I love my Tumblr! But i don’t use it for public consumption. I use shareaholic firefox plugin so when im busy i can right click and chuck stuff in my tumblr for later. I would hate for someone else to read it, its so messy!
I use mine to share stuff from my feeds that makes me go “wow” or “cool” or the like, I kind of think of it as showing people what my taste is. However, I do sometimes wonder if maybe I should be using del.icio.us so that I can find stuff again in the future! Oh, my info hoarding dilemmas :S
I love Tumblr, it beats wordpress hands down, thanks for the mention of http://thedeplorableword.net/
“The social networky side of tumblr doesn’t seem to work as well as it could. I can’t see a list of the people I follow or who my followees follow. I don’t know who’s following me.”
http://www.tumblr.com/dashboard click on Following x people
“If someone reblogs some content and adds their own comment or whatever, I struggle to know who wrote what.”
On your dashboard clicking X Notes will tell you who posted the item.
“The group thing seemed like a good idea, Jon set one up for BiNS, but it doesn’t seem to have a feed.”
http://groupname.tumblr.com/rss
Wow, haven’t been into the Tumblr dashboard for months. Had no idea, or had forgotten, that you can see who’s following you. So, also worth a look:
http://anunreliablewitness.tumblr.com/
http://perpetua.tumblr.com/
Thanks Tom, I did have another look around the dashboard after I’d commented and found that I could see who’s following me. It would be great to see who my friends are following too though.
Also discovered the x notes thing, but I really don’t want to have to visit the dashboard, I just want to read the feeds.
Have just had another look into the group feeds thing and managed to subscribe by clicking the RSS icon in Firefox on the group page, think it’s a slightly different format than you suggested, but anyhoo, it’s working so yay!
It seems that tumblr can actually do some of the things I thought it couldn’t, either because it is has evolved or because I don’t find it as intuitive as some tools, but I’ll hang on in there and keep using it :)
/me adds everyone.
Thanks!
I have a tumblr: bigcatgroup.tumblr.com. Please feel free to look. I am a blogging infant buti’m slowly finding my feet and would very much appreciate anyone visiting the site or my bigcatgroup.blogspot.com and give their thoughts on how good/bad it is.
I haz a tumblr
http://smallthought.tumblr.com/
hi, would you like to follow me? http://caesarianda.tumblr.com I’ve just followed yours :)
hi, i too am a blogging noob, but use my tumblr as mymeans of talking tos omeone without actually tlking to someone. Im also post quotes and pics tht i find inr=teresting i think others would find interesting. http://www.iam-jam.tumbr.com thts me. FOLLOW :)
http://thisisafricablog.tumblr.com/