Mar2
Tumbling
Since LazyWeb these days is the place where all the trackback spam hangs out, I find I have no choice but to turn my ideas into action.
I envy the flexibility of tumblelogs like Projectionist, in which quotations, photos, chatlogs, and links commingle. That said, I don’t want to go the whole hog and turn my weblog into nothing but assembled clippings. I want to be able to write a full post when the mood strikes me, but in between I just want to post things I think are cool. That’s why weblogs were created in the first place, if I’m not mistaken.
Ozimodo is a promising Ruby on Rails tumblelog engine, and I may well end up using it someday, but if I switched now I’d have to give up comments, plus I’d have to import my WordPress entries. So for now I’ll try to mix-in the terse, structured, content-aware post style of tumblelogging with my existing setup.
To that end, I’m working on a tumblelogging plugin for WordPress. It’s not going to win any awards, but it’ll do the stuff I want it to, and if I get my act together I’ll end up releasing it into the wild.
