The results are in, and as befits any good crowd-sourcer, I wanted to share them.
Yesterday I asked TechCrunch readers for some advice. Having quit Twitter, I?m looking for a new blogging platform that will allow me to continue writing longer-form blog posts (as I do now on Wordpress), but with the benefit of social sharing that Twitter used to give me. Wordpress is great as a writer?s tool, but it?s lousy for maintaining a conversation. Twitter is great for sharing, but it was distracting me from updating my blog, which is a problem when it?s one of my primary ways to keep notes for future books.
One compromise, it had been suggested, was Tumblr, and so that?s how I framed my question: Should I Move my Blog to Tumblr?. Many of you responded in the comments with some great advice, and details of your own experiences with Tumblr and similar services. I also received a ton of email, IMs and face-to-face advice from friends. And it all lead me to one inescapable conclusion...
No. I shouldn?t use Tumblr as a platform for my blog. And perhaps you shouldn?t either. Here?s why...
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