zahnster

I’m a fan of sites that are to the point. It’s one of the big things I love about the whole ‘web 2′ movement. Cut the crap, get to the good stuff.

It is knowing this that I find myself addicted to the newest in a long line of blogging sites, Tumblr. According to Tumblr, “If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.”

And they really are. With preset post settings for blogs, pictures, video, quotes, links, and chat transcripts, it is the ultimate quick blogging tool, allowing for a freedom to create spontaneous, quirky posts. It’s like Twitter, or Pownce, but with a little more sustenance – and a lot less of a dependency on social interaction.

In fact, the lack of a solid social angle is the one thing about this site that has underwhelmed me. I’m not quite clear if being social was a primary goal of the development process, or merely an afterthought, because the social interaction the site has is weak at best. With no comment system or friend browsing (you have to know their url beforehand to find them), finding friends on such a young site can prove to be difficult. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing, as the ease of making random friends was the main reason many social networks crap out in my eyes (Pownce and Virb, I’m talking to you).

So I think I’ll keep my little scrapbook blog for a while. Since this site is essentially my ‘on the record’ web identity, it will be nice to have somewhere ‘off the record’ to post pieces of my digital life. You can check out my ‘tumblelog’ at http://rauenzahner.tumblr.com/