Following as RSS
In November of 2007 I wrote this: “I’ve started playing with Tumblr. No idea if I’ll maintain it, but I’ve put up a site at heyitsnoah.tumblr.com. To be honest, it could end up being a lot like these random link posts . . .” Well, I’m at it again. This time in large part because of two things I read (a post post from Rick talking about reading Tumblrs via RSS and a post from Scott on following as RSS).
What I realized, which I suspect most of those using Tumblr have recognized for sometime is that there’s a bunch of people who are using their Dashboard in the exact same way many of us use our feedreaders (not that folks don’t have both). Since I don’t care at all where people read what I have to say (I don’t sell ads after all), I decided it was worth resurrecting my Tumblr at least to pull the feed from this site. Though, like everyone else, I imagine I’ll end up using it for all the other stuff that doesn’t make the cut here. (While we’re on the topic, I’ve also decided to start a Twitter feed for NoahBrier.com. Even though I generally think those feeds with just links are useless, if that’s how people want to read their stuff who am I to not at least offer up my content?)
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that’s cool – I send my shared stuff from google reader to my tumblr, and I usually just read other people’s tumblr’s via my regular google reader rss. but i guess if i share something from someone’s tumblr via GR, i’m not technically re-tumbling it, so i’m not really playing the tumblr game.
and i agree on the twitter – I set up @NakedNY mainly for people who don’t use RSS readers ( a lot), because I think it’s hard to remember to check a site all the time. So it might be good for those people (although I’m willing to bet most people who read your blog use RSS :)
I started using Tumblr a few weeks ago. I like to use it to post interesting things I find that I don’t feel should be developed as a full post on my blog. If people find any value there, then great.
One of the ways I use Twitter is as a 2nd RSS reader, too. That doesn’t mean that I’ll subscribe to someone’s feed in my Google Reader AND Twitter, though – it’s too much. But if I want to keep tabs on someone or their blog, using Twitter is a useful method that won’t clog up my RSS Reader.
As far as your blog, I think your readers mostly use an RSS Reader themselves. People on Twitter are pretty tech savvy, so I think the vast majority are already using some kind of RSS Reader to collect blog posts.
I’m not sure you know it, but you are passing a partial RSS feed to tumblr. A full-content feed would be super pls. I’ve largely abandoned my reader for following.