I’ve been reading about a web service called Tumblr.  Lots of the online writers (okay, bloggers) I follow have started using the service and I decided to give it a test drive myself.  You can check out my Tumblr page at www.jonlowder.info.

From the best I can tell Tumblr is a free and easy way to pull all of your online interests together in one place.  For instance I’ve set up the site to grab all of the information that I tag on del.icio.us, photos I upload to Flickr and posts I make to this blog.  So all of that stuff automatically gets pulled into one place and can be viewed by me or anyone who’s interested.  I can also post original entries there with great ease so I might be adding original content that won’t appear here or anywhere else.  We’ll see.

I’ve only scratched the surface of this thing but I’m willing to give it a go because the people that I use as canaries in the online gold mine (Fred Wilson, Steve Rubel, etc.) have been using it and sing its raves.  I’m pretty sure that as I use it I’ll discover dozens of ways it can be used as a tool that I never would have dreamed of on my own.  Stay tuned.