Postcards from the Funny Farm

Lately my personal diary blog has mutated into a form of a tumblelog slash Twitter (I say “form” only because I “write” lengthy prose here too much here to call this a true microblog) and some people may wonder why I have made that choice to do so. I figured I could come up with 13 reasons to explain why I microblog now. I did, and here are the reasons as my TT. I hope it educates somebody out there who might be bored of regular blogging and wants to expand her/his horizons:

1. Less pressure
2. People stop by and find a new post more often.
3. Feed readers can go down the line while reading latest.
4. Don’t have to keep a dud post up just to follow the “only 1 a day” rule.
5. Don’t limit yourself to one type of post.
6. There is usually more than one thing to say in a day.
7. Your seo and Google rating doesn’t REALLY suffer when you have multiple daily posts. but they tell you it will, so ignore “them.”
8. If you post (for example) 3 link posts, 1 news story,3 quotes, 3 pictures, and one diary entry, you have a better chance at interesting one person than if you put oodles of energy into 1 type of post that 13 readers don’t like the title of and pass by.
9. You have less of that “obligation” feeling to post every day. (it’s ironic how giving yourself permission to post a bunch every day takes away the dread of making yourself post just once a day but it does!)
10. Tumblr.com folk do it and it looks cool on them.
11. Because you have to Twitter to know how darn cool it is!
12. THERE IS JUST SO MUCH TO SAY!!!!
13. When you are in the admin screen you get to see your name and a hefty number of posts right next to it!

Three excellent tumblelogs I have come across in the past few months I’ve been studying it are below.  I highly recommend subscribing to their rss feeds:

1. project.ioni.st
2. Anarchaia
3. Live Tardy

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