I've recently been experimenting with some different forms of blogging, mostly following the lead of a couple of friends who have invited me to use some of the new blogging web sites out there. Twitter is quite cool for seeing what friends are up to but for me at least doesn't seem like an appealing medium for communicating with a wider audience in the way that a blog does. I guess that's not the point of twitter anyway. Tumblr on the other hand does look interesting and seems to fill the middle ground between blogging and twittering. Tumblr doesn't really seem to be any different from a regular blog technically but it somehow seems more acceptable to use tumblr for short messages or sharing links. Basically, tumblr is a much less formal manner of blogging and suits me well for my personal blog as it's somewhere I can post frequently if I have information I don't want to forget but doesn't require me to switch context from whatever else I'm doing in order to write a more formal blog entry with vaguely acceptable grammar.

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