I started using Twitter a few months ago, but I'm not entirely happy with it. It seems too limited with those 140 characters, and it has no intelligence at all: there are no posting types, no link field, just a simple string of text. Recently, I came across tumblr, and it seems to make a lot more sense for actual micro-blogging. I have decided to move the blog part of this page over to tumblr, with smaller updates, but more of them. Tumblr also makes it easy to use your own domain, so here's the new blog.kosara.net.

Tumblr may not be as popular as Twitter, but it's clearly the better service. You can share links, photos, videos, audio, quotes, and even short dialogs. These different types of postings make a lot of sense to structure what you're writing and help make tumblr pages look a bit more interesting. You can "like" a posting, but there is no easy way to comment or respond; that is the only thing that tumblr really lacks.

Tumblr does not limit the length of postings, so it can be used like any other blogging site. But what I most like about it is the way you can write short postings that are still a multiple of Twitter's 140 characters. Most of my musings are still rather short, but need more space than the claustrophobic Twitter. I also appreciate the fact that I can post links without having to shorten them.

I also like the ease with which you can adapt the themes, and how easy they make it to run your tumblelog on your own domain. Setting up my subdomain took a total of about a minute.

This site is very static anyway, but I like the idea of having a kind of independent channel for short postings. I will therefore change the layout here to reflect the nature of the site, and incorporate the blog in a sidebar. I have a similar idea for the much more active EagerEyes.