How’s your New Year so far, dear readers? Mine’s been good – I’ve been keeping up a solid level of editing work in the evenings, a bit more excercise, even some experimental cooking.
I’ve been shifting around the format of the blog a bit. I recently gave in to my Tumblr urges (you can ‘follow’ me here if you’re a Tumblr user). I’ve been syndicating particularly interesting posts here, so blog readers won’t miss out.
I’ll be regularly ‘re-blogging’ pictures, discussions etc that I find interesting. Anything reposted will contain links back to the original source. I’ll also be scrapping the weekly poetry, because I’ve ran out of steam for that. The ease of Tumblr means updates will hopefully be regular, and fresh content will always be up on the site no matter how distracted I get by work or life.
There’s been a lot of talk on the web about “blogger’s burn-out”, when people get worn out by constantly having to produce new posts. I enjoy sharing interesting videos, art, comics, news articles and whatnot, so by mixing a little more of that into the blog it makes life a bit easier for me.
As always, let me know if you like/dislike the change and drop me a link to your own Tumblrs, if you use them. If not, have you tried it? I initially disliked the fact that it’s basically just blogs of people reposting content, without creating anything themselves, but it’s grown on me as a platform for discussion – and it helps that the Tumblr system itself is ridiculously easy to use and syndicates quite smoothly with WordPress through Feedwordpress.
And, as a thanks for reading this far, have some Sherlock comics found on Tumblr:
“sherlock isn’t he dangerous”
“nonsense. he follows me around, he compliments my intelligence, he tries to bite me occasionally… the same as it ever was.”
Much more awesome Sherlock art can be found on reapersun’s Tumblr. Some images are NSFW.