If you are tired of keeping a blog running, then microblogging is for you. With microblogging, you can post just a picture, a link or a quote that you liked or a status update on what do you do or where are you. With web services such as Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce, everyone is catching up with microblogging.

A microblog is easy to maintain with only brief text updates that you can type and send with your mobile phone, email or instant messenger. Now, even facebook has a feature that lets you to inform your friends about what you are doing.

There is another interesting development namely, “Tumblelogs”, that are also increasingly becoming popular. Wikipedia defines a tumblelog ‘as a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts’. If blogs can be compared to commentaries, with tumblelogs, you can post only your creations – that include web links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Tumblelogs are even better because, you can feed RSS into a tumblelog. For instance, Tumblr (just like Blogger for Blogs)- a popular tumble log service – allows you to combine your RSS feeds from your favourite sites and publishes automatically. You can point your flickr photostream RSS, Twitter RSS to your Tumblr blog which publishes updates when you update on flickr or twitter. For example, see my photo tumblelog that is fed by my flickr photostream.

If any of your friends think that starting a blog is a big responsibility, ask them to try microblogging.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.