Patrick Says

First things first. If you don’t know what a tumblelog is, go here.

Cool.

So, I have toyed with the idea of having a tumblelog. Why? Some people like to think of blogs as heavy on the written word and not so much pictures and videos. I was the same way for awhile. That’s where the tumblelog comes in. With its focus on short posts and mixed-media, it seems like the perfect place for those YouTube videos and pictures and five-word-posts.

And that’s fine.

But the problem is that unless you set up your own installation using a full-featured blog platform (like WordPress, for example), you’re at the mercy of places like tumblr.com. Now I’m not criticizing tumblr. They do a great job, even without having that ‘e’ in their name. But if they closed their doors tomorrow, you’d lose everything you had saved and built there and the recovery could be a real nightmare. If this blog right here goes down, I have a complete backup, including the database, on my hard drive at home.

(Also, ‘no comments’ is bullsh*t. It just is.)

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