In my quest to find the perfect blogging platform, perfect for me anyway, I think I’ve tried every platform out there. The problem has always been that as soon as I find a great solution, it changes and alas I need to start all over again. This is rather frustrating as I don’t want peoples’ first impressions of my blog to be, “oh, he’s changed to yet another system? again?”
A while ago, Tumblr was one of the blogging services that had me rather jazzed. I especially liked the fact that in addition to logging, Tumblr has a bit of a social component with its ability to “follow” blogs of interest, to “re-blog content,” and much more. I drifted away from Tumblr due to the inaccessibility of its built-in media player. This was a rather large concern of mine given that I like to post short audio clips from time to time; I post audio in the same way others might post photos. I migrated to Posterous which was not only very accessible in terms of content creation/management, but which had multiple, accessible ways to play audio. Posterous has since been acquired by Twitter, however, and I’m starting to have real concerns on where it might be headed.
To make a long and probably painful story short, I’m going to give Tumblr another try as undoubtedly, a lot has changed. Over the next few days, I plan to post quite a bit to Tumblr, put it through its paces as it were, and figure out if the platform will work for me. I realize that what may work for me might not work for others, but if you’re curious about Tumblr or just want to know some of the obstacles you might face should you choose it as your own platform of choice, I hope you find these posts useful. As always, I appreciate any comments/thoughts/advice.