Tumblr is kind of a hybrid between Twitter and blogging. It's called "microblogging" and the emphasis is on making it super easy to blog and share quick, short posts. Rather than starting with a single blank post template to which you add video or photos or links (like Blogger), Tumblr starts you with a set of options depending on what you want to share:
Each option takes you to a different form to fill out for that type of media or post. Tumblr takes care of all the formatting for you! They have a bookmarklet you can put on your browser, so when you are on a website you'd like to share, you can just click on the button and it will pop open a form to fill out. And it even "knows" what you are selecting and opens the appropriate form! If you have highlighted some text before you click the bookmarklet, you get a Quotes form to fill out. If you are on YouTube, you get a video form. Very cool!
It's also very easy to blog via your mobile device. There's a Tumblr app, and you can take photos and send to Tumblr in just a couple of steps.
So that's the "blogging" part of Tumblr! The "Twitter" part of Tumblr is that once you have your blog set up, you can find and follow other people on Tumblr. Their posts show up in your feed just like on Twitter, and you can "like" and "share" posts from other Tumblrs on your own Tumblr.
I am pretty busy on GoodReads, Facebook, Twitter, and blogging networks, so I'm not really interested right now in finding and following others on Tumblr. I am loving Tumblr even without the network aspect, though, because it is so easy to use and is clean and simple in look and feel. I think their "Archive" page is especially well designed. Rather than a list of links, you can see a montage of all your posts for the month. It's a fun way for the girls and I to look at our growing list of projects!
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