Either Relevant or True » Tumbleblog v. 1.0

A tumblelog (or tlog) 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, tumblelogs are frequently used to share the author’s creations, discoveries, or experiences while providing little or no commentary.

Thanks to Google Reader and Yahoo Pipes, I have a pretty elaborate system feeding me all the KO news pulsing through the tubes, all the time, hundreds of items per day. Diligence and technology - that’s how I find most of what I write up for the front page. It’s a dirty job sifting through all of those endlessly parroted Newsbusters posts, but somebody’s gotta do it.

Most of what shows up are casual mentions of no real importance, certainly not enough to deserve an entire blog post. But sometimes those little bits are funny or insightful or just flat-out weird. And so while I was toying with Tumbler the other day I started pulling some of those mentions into a tumblelog…

Here’s Tumblelogging Olbermann, v. 1.0. Like it? Don’t like it? Want it to do X? Keep it? Tell me what you think.

Oooh, like it.

Fun stuff!
How hard would it be for you to do?

That was fun.

I especially appreciated the reference to Chris’s election night analogy of the Clinton victory to the attack across the Nefud into Aqaba (my favorite scene from a memorable movie).

Even though I had heard it live, in rather the same speechless, startled disbelief as Keith seemed to have, when Jon Stewart closed his clip show of ever more ridiculous comments on the topic with that footage, I was unfortunately drinking hot Gypsy Cold Cure tea. I do not think that the intent is to snort it up backwards and out the nose, but that does seem to have helped.

And every time that clip is played, there is Keith beside Matthews, a very uncomfortable accessory.

Next, I expect to see it in a new Giuliani ad.

I like it. Where else would I find that it’s Keith’s glasses that really send people over the edge?

Tumbling isn’t hard to do at all. Maybe 30 seconds from start to finish. I highlight a quote, click a bookmarklet, approve the post, and that’s that! I don’t even have to code links - it’s all done for me.

My concern is that a) it may be difficult to keep up with unless you use a RSS reader and b) visitors will forget to visit the tumblelog page. But it seems to be getting a positive response (thank you all), so I’ll put a link up on the front page and see how it goes!

Okay, what is an RSS reader, how does one get and/or use one?

Keep it. Those short tidbits are good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

You can set up a reader in a lot of places - Google or Yahoo for instance. There’s one built in to the Firefox browser. It’s all fairly easy to set up, no matter which one you use.

(I’m partial to Google Reader, but then again Google owns a small chunk of my soul at this point.)

Somebody compared Keith to Alan Colmes??

Are they NUTS?!?!?

OK, he did look nonplussed by the Lawrence of Arabia analogy. But then again, who wouldn’t?

I’ve heard of tortured analogies before, but Matthews, who could not be expected to know any better, would probably say he didn’t torture that analogy–he just waterboarded it. Whether or not that’s torture is up for debate.

That man scares me.

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