SubscribeWeazone to launch Tumblelog
Tumblelog is a new word I just learned from Andy’s blog. He is founder of Weazone, a music community we have introduced along with a couple of other music services in last December.
What is Tumblelog? The Wikipedia entry says:
A tumblelog is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, this format is frequently used to share the author’s creations, discoveries, or experiences without providing a commentary.
Andy is talking about a new module called Phrase to be released in March. I am looking forward to it. He also linked to several tumblelog related sites. Tumblr is a great hosting for tumblelog. Twitter, which is being talked about in blogosphere recently. But it’s still hard for me to get it. Twitter is not really true tumblelog, because it’s just for noting what you are doing now, not interesting stuffs you have found. Xanga Pulse, I noticed this for the first time but it’s surely a good reason for users to hand on your site.
Why I pick this up? Recently I came across a blogging service, Atnote. I thought this was the service very like Twitter in China. It organizes photos, podcasts, stuffs, collects, knowledge in different tabs so that you can timely record anything you find interesting and keep them well organized. It also has mobile access support, so you really can record at any time.
Atnote has been there for about one year now. Currently it doesn’t have any business model. As an interesting blogging service, it surely has its niche market.
The problem of tumblelog is that if your blog is not topic focused, it’s hardly useful for others, since you don’t add much commentary. Scripting news is a partial tumblelog, since sometimes it has long insightful posts too. Except that, I don’t find any other interesting tumblelog yet. The reason is without commentary, you lose the context why the link is picked up.
In CWR blog, we intended to make every post long and deeply dug. This surely will lose timeliness sometimes. So it still needs balancing.
Update Mar. 1, 2007: Weazone’s mini blogging feature has launched, called Weazon Saying. Read more.
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I don’t know about “tumbelog” but the Chinese students have a new craze they call “voteblog”.
They publish once-twice a week a short serial adventure that the readers can influence by voting and giving advice to the characters of the story. The aim is to create a global channel to tell what the Chinese young people think, fear or hope.
The story seems to me quite innocent but everybody tries of course to find “hidden messages” between the lines.
The English version is at http://www.kremtrekker.com
[...] China’s Twitter: Twitter is so hot recently, so it is not surprised to know there is a Chinese version of Twitter. The only question is when. Though Weazone and V2ex both have rolled out features as Tumblelog, it is not Twitter. Now Popwu intends to make itself a copy of Twitter in China. As Twitter, it allows you to update what you are doing and to follow your friends’ updates. Popwu has a MSN Messenger bot for users to update and receive messages, but no SMS support so far. Will it be successful? I doubt it. But maybe copying a mobile Twitter makes sense in China, anyway, SMS is very popular in China. [...]
In reply to your loss at understanding the value of tumblelogs: ‘The reason is without commentary, you lose the context why the link is picked up.’ I think the lack of commentary is what makes them intriguing and possibly leaving it up to the reader to provide that context.
Tumblelogs can be an artistic series of snap shots presented daily into what the site feels is relevant or meaningful.
Lord knows we have enough commentary on the internet, how ’bout a bit of impressionistic blogging?
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