New Toy for Me

I’ve got a new toy, ok so it’s a virtual toy but it’s geeky and something new for me to play with so it still counts.

After listening to Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann et al going on for the last few weeks about Tumblr logs I decided to see what it was all about and whether it was something I should bother with.

I mean I already have several blogs, several flickr accounts, twitter, My Space, podcasts, forums and a mass of other new media social tid bits to keep my short attention spanned head happy.

I even signed up for a newsvine account recently because I liked the idea of having my own column.

But this does seem to be something that might just keep me interested for more than a few minutes - it’s basically a mini blog that lets you dump whatever’s in your head or anything you find on the web.

When I write a blog post, for the most part it is usually a few hundred words, it’s a proper article that expresses some kind of opinion and shares an element of information.

What the Tumblr blogs let you do is dump anything from a single link to a conversation or even a video clip and nothing else straight up online.

Twitter gives me a chance to have a quick brain dump but Tumblr extends that and lets me throw anything I want out into the wilds of the world wide web.

So as well as my regular blog postings you can see what else I’m up to at howtobeageek.net.

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