My own personal tumblr
Tumblelogs are a wonderful idea for anyone who: A) can’t write decent content to save their lives; or, B) want to keep a personal web history with notes (or not) in a blog format. I fall into the latter category - I keep a blog (and this one) for my well formulated ideas that can be read and comprehended by my readers, and I also now have a tumblelog (or tlog) to keep track of my brain dumps and such.
Both my blog and my tumblelog are powered by WordPress (for the moment). They run on separate a single installation, of WordPress, both to make posting to the tumblelog simpler and to keep my main blog feed free of trivial posts to the tumblelog. However, I used the same database for both installations to simplify search queries/results and tags, as well as user account and comments synchronization. Of course, once I come to that bridge I will discuss how I get across it right here so stay tuned.
Also, I installed a plugin called QuickPost in my tumblelog installation. This plugin comes with a bookmarklet for your bookmarks toolbar. Once you configure the settings, this nifty little button allows you to pass yummy variables to Wordpress from a webpage. A popup comes up and you have a slimmed down post interface to add your thoughts to the post before sumbitting. Then, assuming you have a theme setup to handle the various types of quickposts, you have a clean and pretty log of your web finds.
My tumblelog theme is available on the Downloads page; you can get the QuickPost plugin I spoke of here.
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