After a little over a month of spending most of my time over on The Runoff, I think I’ve figured out what my blogging future looks like.
Tumblr is an impressive format. Its ease of use cannot be matched. That being said, as a platform, Tumblr sits somewhere between micro blogging and full blogging and it doesn’t meet all the needs I want for my blog. The biggest issue is comments. So far as I can tell, a reader must have a Tumblr account to leave comments on anything I post there. That’s a big drawback for me. That being said, the majority of what I’ve put up there isn’t really stuff that would spark a big conversation.
So, what is the future? The conclusion isn’t too different from what I projected when I first talk about tumblr in early March. 6 Mile Village will be the home for posts that are best served by the long-form blog format. Topics that I hope spark discussion or are informational. While Tumblr will continue to be the home for the random stuff that doesn’t need to be here, but needs more functionality than just 140 characters.
I have a few different posts in mind coming down the pipe. A series I want to start that I hope you’ll enjoy and some other topical stuff that we self-important bloggers like to ramble about.
Stay tuned!
