Posts tagged Blog Platform
I had an great “conversation” via Twitter with John Moore (@johnfmoore), CIO/CTO/SVP of Engineering at Swimfish last night as he was asking some great questions via the #blogchat hash tag about blogging. He asked a variety of thought provoking questions including the following:
- How do you promote your blog posts?
- Does anyone just wing their blog posts?
- How long did it take you to consider your log successful?
- How many of you have a corporate blog (which you write for) and a personal blog?
- What is your blog platform of choice?
- What blog do you turn to for inspiration in design , capabilities?
Since I am fairly new to blogging the question that I found the most interesting was “What is your platform of choice?“…So to slightly expand upon my 140 character response from last night here is why I chose Tumblr as my blogging platform of choice:
- One of the first things that I noticed about Tumblr, as compared to some of the other blogging platforms, was how simple and clean the user-interface (UI) is which I find quite refreshing. I often find myself overwhelmed as I read blogs as they inundate you with information by squeezing as much data onto one page as they possibly can. Call me a sucker for an uncluttered UI. Sometimes less is more.
- So if Twitter is considered micro-blogging and WordPress/Blogger are good examples of full-fledged blogging platforms I would categorize Tumbr as a great example of mini-blogging; the perfect middle ground between the aforementioned platforms. Tumbr makes it very easy to create and share a variety of content types including Text, Photos, Quotes, Links, Embedded Chat, Audio, & Video.
- Ease of getting started. It took me a total of 3 minutes to create my account, point my fully qualified domain name to Tumblr, and create my first post. I spent far more time looking at freely available and easily customizable themes.
- Cost = $0.00 - Need I say more.
- Like many other blogging platforms Tumblr offers an API so that developers can create add-ons and/or services as enhancements. My absolute favorite add-on allows me to create an audio post from a phone. So if I have a great idea while sitting in traffic, all I have to do is call into my blog and tell it my latest and greatest!
If there is “knock” on Tumblr it is the fact that they don’t currently offer anonymous comments to posts. They do offer comments if you have a Tumblr account, but in this day and age that falls short of the competition. I know this is in the works, but I hope this functionality comes sooner than later.
Thanks to John Moore for posing these questions. John’s blog is a great resource and he is also very active on Twitter. I highly encourage you to add his blog to your favorite RSS aggregater and be sure to follow him on Twitter:
Blog: Random Thoughts of a Boston-Based CTO
Twitter: JohnFMoore
