Ever adventuring into other Internet platforms, this is my first shot at tumblr. I’m thinking the days of hosting your own Wordpress based blog are almost over, and I’m looking into more up to date options. Wordpress certainly had it’s day, but it seems to be evolving into a weird hybrid CMS & blog. Too many features and plugins to be considered a blog, but not enough connectivity.

Granted, I believe it still has it’s place. Larger blog/magazine type sites like Smashing are well suited to it, especially if you plan to monetize the blog itself, and the site is the whole business. However, as an add-on blog to a business whose main focus is something besides a blog, it’s getting long in the tooth IMHO. As a CMS for a website that is not magazine/content based, I’ve found it really weak as well, compared to things like Concrete5.

So, here goes my attempt at Tumblr.