Hipsnip

Moving to micro/nano blogging

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of all these different tools that overlap on 70% of their functionality. I’ve done pretty much all of them: blogs, links, etc. I’ve rolled my own and I’ve used other peoples’. At the end of the day, I just want all the stuf rolled into one. I don’t want to be switching all over the place.

Now, I understand the separation of services like delicious. It makes sense for me to track me URLs in one place and to post other things in other places. But each aggregator always seems to want to add an email feature or an “import everything from my competitor” service.

As far as I’m concerned, my recent move to Tumblr represents the latest in a series of upgrades. I’ll move my facebook notes into here (and out of facebook’s walled garden) and just import my tumblr stuff into facebook for those who want to read it.

My photos should really go on flickr; I don’t like the idea of paying for stuff but the pro account is not that expensive and at least then everything is outside of facebook’s garden.

Tumblr is great because it actually does what I really want: multiple types of posting to my micro blog.

Hooking up to twitter would be cooler if I could actually receive tweets. I need a “proper” nano-blogging solution.

Anyway, in the future, I want:

• An aggregating tool that pulls all my stuff together and produces a single feed (for now that looks like friendfeed will do the trick)
• A single “stuffer” tool for posting all my snippets (tumblr)
• A bunch of specialty tools that do one thing and do it well (twitter, flickr, etc.); clearly, they must be un-walled gardens