About two months ago I switched from Wordpress to Tumblr. I had seen it as a different blogging platform with some additional features. But after a while I realized that Tumblr can’t be a replacement for Wordpress – it’s a completely different service. Tumblr works best as an aggregator of all your online activity in one place. It’s much like Facebook’s News Feed, but for everything. And Wordpress works best as a content creation tool. So instead of choosing one or the other, now I’m using both.
My blog is now at http://blog.billerickson.net and running on Wordpress. I’ve imported all the content from my old blog, and I’ll be blogging from here now. If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, the feed is the same as it was before: http://feeds.feedburner.com/billerickson. I’m not sure how often I’ll be blogging, but I’m guessing it will be once or twice a month.
http://www.billerickson.net is now my tumblr feed, which pulls from my blog, flickr, twitter, del.icio.us, any comments I make on other blogs, or anything else I find interesting. This will be updated much more often than the blog, probably 1-10 posts per day. If you’d like to subscribe to this, here’s the feed: http://www.billerickson.net/rss.
We’ll see how long this lasts before I change it up yet again.
Bill Erickson is a WordPress Consultant who builds custom websites using WordPress as a CMS and Thesis as a framework. He’s a cofounder and resident of The Creative Space, and a cofounder of the BIL Conference (the open analog to the TED Conference).
