Elly’s Life Stream

Based on a few recommendations on Twitter over the last week, I decided to try and have a play with Tumblr.

Tumblr themselves link to Wikipedia to explain exactly what they do:

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.

I’d been looking to change up http://ellybabes.com* away from the basic, crappy looking HTML that I had originally created there. Tumblr provided me with an easy way to collate my online life, by pulling in my blog posts, Flickr photos, Del.ic.ious links and Twitter posts. It’s nicely arranged by date and it’s going to be something that will be cool to look back at in a few years time to see just what I was up to on a specific day.

Tumblr can pull in any RSS feed and info from many other sites and you can also add snippets yourself manually. It’s look is highly customizable, so you can make it look and feel just the way you want. I have great hopes for this tool and I hope that they keep developing it more in future.

* Don’t worry, my blog will stay at it’s original home: http://blog.ellybabes.com for those who just want to follow my posts and not be bogged down by everything else in my life!