Over the past month I have started getting much more involved in the micro-blogging site Tumblr. When you sign up for Tumblr, you create a tumblelog, A tumblelog is a variation of a blog that favours short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts associated with blogging. Most peoples tumblelogs associate with the pictures, videos, links and quotes they discover while surfing the web. However tumblelogs have other creative uses such as Trailwaker, a tumblelog set up to broadcast Team Stiles participation in the Oxfam Trailwalker New Zealand Challenge. Or another creative tumblelog is Lunch Bag Art, a dad who creates unique and impressive lunch bag for his kids.

This is why I love Tumblr:

Easy As

It’s literally not much more than a click of a button (ok, maybe two or three clicks) to update your tumblelog. This feature of ease of use attracts many people to Tumblr as most people don’t have the patience to maintain a blog and write lengthy posts. My favourite ‘Goodie’ in updating my tumblelog is their bookmarklet. if I come across a nifty photo, video, link, quote or piece of text I want to share with my readers and friends all I have to do is click the Share on Tumblr bookmarklet in my bookmarks toolbar in Firefox and it automatically reads my mind in what I want to post. All I have to do after that is click Create and it posts the content to my Tumblr. Easy huh? Other nifty goodies for updating your tumblelog is an iPhone App, Mac OS X dashboard widget, call in audio, email posting and a variety of other awesome third party apps.

Customisable

With very little design or tech know-how you can easily create a beautiful tumblelog. One can choose a theme from Tumblr’s extraordinary Themes Garden or easily create one themselves. (It’s not that hard!)

Another cool feature is that you can register your own domain and link it with your tumblelog. This is a nifty idea for a lot of people as they can have their easy, great looking space on the web with their own domain name. This also provides uniqueness so that you are not just a subdomain of Tumblr.

Great Content

One can follow different tumblelogs and they can appear in their dashboard. As I look through my dashboard I see awesome  types of content. The content is almost always aesthetically pleasing and great looking. It’s great to know that people are putting out this awesome content not just to profit off ads but to add benefit to the Tumblr community.

It’s Cool

Tumbling is cool. It’s easy, takes little effort and a lot of fun. I can often sit and spend the whole day looking throughout different tumblelogs. Tumblr helps to promote your creativity and uniqueness.

If your not on Tumblr you should definitely sign up. It’s the place to be. While your exploring why don’t you check out my tumblelog?  Have any other reasons why you love Tumblr? Comment!

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