Get the Word Out Fast! Tumblr at a Glance
PC Magazine, October 23, 2007
By Michael Muchmore
More of a “miniblog” than a microblog, Tumblr offers some of the instant gratification of Twitter and some of the richer formatting and media capabilities available in standard blogging services such as Blogger, LiveJournal, or Vox. Tumblr goes deeper than true microblog sites, adding richer goodies such as photos, video support, and feeds. With it you can create a “tumblelog,“ which the company describes this way: “If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.“ These are usually full of prominently dated posts that are short on text and long on clipped pictures, video, quotations, and other Web artifacts. The archetypal example is Projectionist.
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