Blogging after awhile.
Partly because of tumblr where I have been blogging a fair bit. It started because tumblr is an easy platform to catalogue interests and allows a bit more text than the purely visual pinterest. On the other hand you can't have a lot of text like blogger - its a sign of the times that blogger now seems text heavy! Though my blog started as a catalogue of blouses in various decades, the material I found turned out to be an interesting insight into the early decades of the 20th century in India and its proving enjoyable thus far.
And then there's tumblr itself. It's ruled by young people (the average age on the site is 24, most American) and gifs, as a result it is filled with youthful angst, silly things and the kind of trite sayings that are lent profundity only because it comes from young people experiencing life. Consequently, its a place where a simple thing may get reblogged many times over while interesting pieces get little love. Nevertheless there are a lot of niche sites that cover everything from literature to science to art and its a bit like rummaging through an attic unsure of what one may find. Naturally in the context of my own blog I visit a lot of vintage fashion and history blogs and most are beautifully curated and informative.
On the whole tumblr is divided between fandom (of these the Sherlockians specifically Cumberbitches, Hiddlestoners and Whovians seem to be prolific and witty) and creatives-there are a good deal of illustrations and the like on the site, perhaps obvious given tumblr is such a visual platform. More well established folk like the New Yorker, Atlantic, Paris Review et al also post often and in some ways its easier to follow than visiting individual sites. Searching is easy because you can follow tags in a way that is hard with blogger and overwhelming with twitter.
Its a little hard to use facebook after tumblr, partly because tumblr has a more laid back vibe and there aren't the constant changes and privacy concerns of facebook. Except of course that tumblr is more a community of strangers than your friends or family. And tumblr is its own sealed world - almost no one I know uses it.
How long it will last I cannot say. There is only so much cataloguing or curating one can do. Maybe next stop vimeo.....except I don't make movies:-)
PS: Of course the Tam in me has noticed that there is a davara-tumbler.tumblr.com :-) And the most popular Indian movie blog around seems to be dhrupad - interesting to see a lot of old movies finding new life on the Net but expect a lot of gifs.
