I’m trying something new this evening, and may already be addicted. I’ve been wanting to create some sorta looser and more frivolous multi-media catch-all blog-thing for this site, a page onto which I could toss whatever shiny little something caught my eye on today’s journey. But that idea has sat on the back burner, while more important tasks absorbed my time.
But here’s what I love about the quick and clever web 2.0 internet of today: Not only do other people see it’s potential and have similar ideas, they just go out and build the new tools to make it happen. It turns out that what I want has already been invented (2 years ago), and it’s called a tumble log. Even better, somebody else has put up a free and oh so easy to use service that takes all the geek tweakery outta setting one up for yourself.
It’s child’s play, literally; I’m setting one up for my favorite 8 year old. If you can surf the web, type your own name and click a mouse, you can publish a tumble log using Tumblr. Really.
I think the idea is about to take the ‘net by storm. It’s the tool for people who want to create their own web page with more ease and far better looks than the horror show of Myspace, but who don’t have the time or commitment to regularly publish a normal blog. This is kinda like instant blogging for people with an attention span of 5 seconds.
Starting today, I’ll be casually posting shorter, quicker, pithier and utterly random links, photos, videos, tweats, tech bargains, and who knows what at Daily.Mykl.org. As with pretty much everything on the shiny web 2.0 internet, you can subscribe to this stream-o-consciousness scrapbook via RSS.
I’ll keep using my Journal and this Geekery blog for more thoughtful -- or just wordier -- tutorials, ramblings, and other content with an enduring shelf life. But for the flavor of the day, a brief distraction, or to see what I’m up to right now, take a minute to look at Daily.Mykl.org.
1 March 2007
