Comments on: Chew on this http://snarkmarket.com/2010/4917 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Tue, 14 May 2013 15:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: john ratcliffe-lee http://snarkmarket.com/2010/4917/comment-page-1#comment-8491 john ratcliffe-lee Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:42:16 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4917#comment-8491 i've been using tumblr for a while and never really thought about this. i even imported my old blog from wordpress so my archive goes back, technically, before tumblr even existed - which i think is funny. not often you can find 8 years of archival content on a platform that hasn't existed for half that. especially on today's web. although, what i do appreciate about tumblr's historical navigation is the narrative it tries to tell. the whole reason i switched from wordpress was the UI and the fragmentation. i felt, with the tumblr platform, i can tell a better narrative. the tags and search are more straightforward and don't have double-meaning. what's nice about tumblr is that it gets out of the way when you're trying to tell a story. i’ve been using tumblr for a while and never really thought about this. i even imported my old blog from wordpress so my archive goes back, technically, before tumblr even existed — which i think is funny. not often you can find 8 years of archival content on a platform that hasn’t existed for half that. especially on today’s web.

although, what i do appreciate about tumblr’s historical navigation is the narrative it tries to tell. the whole reason i switched from wordpress was the UI and the fragmentation. i felt, with the tumblr platform, i can tell a better narrative. the tags and search are more straightforward and don’t have double-meaning. what’s nice about tumblr is that it gets out of the way when you’re trying to tell a story.

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