The Tumblr Effect

For me Tumblr has been an amazing platform to use because it allows users to publish random bits of inspiration and has alleviated the pain of feeling that you have to fret over writing drawn-out post to consider yourself a legitimate blogger. You can gather anything you come across online and share it instantly, regardless of what the content is since the service caters to any form of creativity you throw at it.

Even though that’s never necessarily been my approach on using Tumblr, it took Michael’s observation of the service to reinforce what I’ve been secretly feeling.

While Tumblr has done an excellent job at making it easy for people to republish content to their own audience, I can’t help but feel that they’ve neglected the creation of original content.

To the defense of the select few of blog that I attentively follow on Tumblr, these are the ones that captivate me with their mixture of intriguing original and reblogged content infused with a viewpoint on what they publish and not coming across as endless stuff in a Digg-like manner as perhaps the majority of open accounts are like.

I’ll be the first to say that it’s a little too easy having the urge to publish content haphazardly in Tumblr where the substance of the material could be stronger and so that’s the challenge I set myself to in using it where the opportunity to produce original pieces is not overshadowed by the ease of republishing just anything.

Michael Hyatt says that “publishing is a humbling reminder that none of us can determine with absolute certainty what will work and what won’t” but imagine how much more refreshing it would be if the ambition of every blogger was to get people analyzing over their pieces to guarantee that at least every entry does work.

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