Why is Tumblr all of a sudden generating so much buzz as the new, new thing, when it's not new at all? What's made it so much cooler than when first I signed up to it? Which of my accounts should I make my Norwegian account, and which of them are worth resurrecting for what purpose?
I'm in the process of re-evaluating my many social media accounts. So with all the recent buzz about Tumblr, I logged into my account for the first time in ages, found some really cool new templates - always wanted something like the one I found with the universe as a background - and found two other accounts to follow. Then what? Still undecided about what to do with my Tumblr-account. I suspect the value of it would become more apparent if I had a community of cool people I were following there, but finding that community feels a bit pointless as long as I haven't decided what to do with the account.
Also, I've reached a point where I really need to have Norwegian microblog, like Tumblr or Posterous, to jot down quick posts, ask questions etc. Social media has become such an important toolbox for my work that I think I need to set up, or rather designate, Norwegian only accounts for my work. For Twitter, I think that will be my @twournalist account (only locked now so I don't get all these spam followers while not using it actively), but should I use Posterous, Tumblr or some other service for my slightly longer quick updates? That depends partly on where the Norwegians in my network are of course, and on what's practical.
Also, too many profiles probably won't work: there's got to be some realism to it...Or is there some service which will make handling all these different accounts (posterous, tumblr, typepad, wordpress, twitter etc) easier? I also quite like my Typepad Micro blog, which I use for quick updates and thoughts on travel-related stuff (and is sort of bilingual by default), and am setting up a Norwegian only Facebook account for work (perhaps the latter will be better suited for quick work updates?)... Confused...
