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 shiny 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 tumblelog. 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 gonna set 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 tumblelog 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 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 and who knows what at Jumble.Mykl.org. As with pretty much everything on the shiny web 2.0 internet, you can subscribe to this stream of consciousness scrapbook via RSS.
I’ll keep using this Journal for more thoughtful -- or just wordier -- essays and ramblings. And whenever I post here, my Jumble will have a link to the new post.
1 March 2007
