Wordpress v Tumblr
As usual, I tend to distract my self from the repetitive and mundane readings of commercial law. The latest distraction led me to a few hours of exploration of various other tumblelogs - and least to say I wasn’t very impressed.
After reviewing some of the most popular blogs on the Tumblr database, I suddenly realised its basically dominated by teenage girls posting up random pieces of art and the odd old freakshow posting up pornography in an attempt to “appreciate sexology”. You really need to have an appreciation for the arts and a strong appreciation for photography. And I don’t, and neither do I think I really want to be on here anymore. For a top ten list of most popular tumblelogs check out the site: http://ashotofjd.com/post/282348540/the-most-popular-tumblr-blogs.
The reason why I got into micro blogging in the first place was to explore whatever interested me and communicate that - and whoever wanted to read it would - which isn’t my concern. Tumblr’s functionality made it so easy to get started - you can post virtually post in any media format in less than a minute. The thousands of photo’s that keep on churning out of this database is amazing.
But I think I need a platform that provides a lot more, yet making it easy. And I guess the next step from here is Wordpress. The functionality of Wordpress is definitely more sophisticated than Tumblr and also makes it a little more authentic. I like how it categorizes your posts, and can allow you to track your development over time. Also, just greater flexibility in your posting as well - and its not micro blogging.
But I want to go one step further and have my own site - I miss those high school days when I did —> Nobbstak.tk (it was the shit!). Definitely generated a lot of traffic when I use to post all those flash videos during school. And the domain name was free as well - at the time until a few years ago they commercialized that too. My ISP use to webhost a few hundred megabytes and Microsoft FrontPage was the program I used to create my website/blog.
So that’s the aim over the next few months - I just need to see whether it’s worthwhile. Main thing is I would probably want to publish anonymously - I don’t like my personality being displayed on the WWW for obvious reasons. So I need a good and catchy name for my next project - any suggestions?
I have been checking out how much it is to host and also purchase domain names - and its pretty damn cheap. I can have a site for 3 years, personalized domain name for around $60 odd. Not bad at all.
1 year ago