The keen-eyed among you may have noticed that I’ve also added a little link to Moreish - my tumblog, which can be found at http://megpickard.tumblr.com/, which is a different sort of collection of stuff altogether.
In the spirit of Humphrey Littleton introducing One Song To The Tune Of Another on ISHAC: if my wanderings around the web were a trip abroad, then….
…this blog would be the wordy What I did On My Summer Holiday post-return writeup, mixed up with various fieldnotes scrawled in the margins of whatever I’d been reading beside the pool.
My Flickr images would (natch) be my incredibly tedious slideshow which I would inflict on the neighbours at great length. My del.icio.us links would be like the post it notes I’d stuck into the back of the guidebook and scribbled in my moleskin as I traipsed about the foreign city.
My last.fm profile would recount
my soundtrack on my ipod as I climbed the steps to the castle and lazed on the balcony.
And my tumblog is the scrapbook I cobbled together out of found objects and contextless stuff from the journey - a tram ticket; a remembered scene; the wrapper of a candy bar with a silly name; a timetable; an overheard snippet of conversation in a taverna.
It’s a collection of found digital ephemera, 98% presented without context or explanation.
I wish there was a Tumblr WP plugin, though - or a way to sneak it in to my regular postings like with del.icio.us links.
Anyway, I wanted to point it out in case you hadn’t found it.
And here’s something I dug out this afternoon which I think is very cool indeed:
(Unrelated: I always want to pluralise sidebar to sidebären, like Gummibären)


Your Tumblr blog has an RSS feed, which you can incorporate into your blog.
I always find people who incorporate so much of their lives into the internet very interesting. A few clicks and we can find out enough to keep our nosey little selves busy for hours :)
@Sour Grapes - Yes, I found the RSS feed - it’s incorporated over there on the right, although it’s just a link, rather than a list of headlines, unfortunately.
What would be aces though would be something which let me auto publish once in a while a bunch of recent things tumbled, which requires tumblr to have access to publish on this site. Just like del.icio.us.
After following a few Tumblr accounts with curiosity for a few months I finally started my own tumblog last week. Initially I didn’t like the way there are no comments, categories or archives… but now I find it quite liberating.
I’ve tried to make a site that’s as automated as possible thanks to the way Tumblr can republish syndicated RSS content from elsewhere. It’s especially good to find a home for my Google Reader ’shared’ feed.
Beware though, Meg: Tumbling can be addictive…
http://tumblefeed.thair.net