A couple of weeks ago on Inside PR , Martin Waxman , Joe Thornley , and I broached the subject of Steve Rubel moving his blog to Tumblr. Why did you make the decision to shut down your existing blogs and move everything to Tumblr ? chose Tumblr since it’s aggressively being used by media, has tentacles into Twitter and Facebook and it’s own robust community. shut down the other sites since there was no easy way to import the existing content into Tumblr and much of it was old. Has your community been willing to move to Tumblr with you ? MORE >>

There was too much crossover with Twitter and WordPress for the site to ever be successful. didn’t visit Tumblr again for 2 years. Our own coverage of Tumblr over the last year has been relatively negative, pointing out when Tumblr is down and general frustration about the way the site often wrecks long posts when it does go down. Why Tumblr Is The “Beater” Let’s be clear. For Twitter, Google+ poses an entire other set of problems as they fight off the potential of losing their real-time relevance if Google or Facebook can master it. MORE >>

New blogging systems like Posterous and Tumblr seem to be pretty popular, and they fill a nice middle ground: short content, easy sharing, social stuff. But try to imagine replacing Daring Fireball, Scripting News, Apple Outsider, Shawn Blanc, or any of a number of great blogs with something like Twitter. But he’s a bit off in portraying Tumblr this way. Tumblr, to me at least, isn’t a blog platform but something new entirely - a social network for both original and curated content that is longer than a tweet and often more visual in nature. They’re cool. You can’t. MORE >>

Dear Tumblr: I know you’re growing faster than any blogging platform ever. Twitter has grown past most of their issues and are vastly improved over a year ago (which was vastly improved over the year before). Tumblr, however, seems to be making very little progress. Rant Tumblr tumblrMark this down in the “ranting because something just pissed me off&# category. There’s not a whole lot to say and this post will be short. know that you handle most situations with class and are apologetic when things go wrong. When does this end? MORE >>

Instagram + Tumblr. While Instagram and Tumblr are two separate tools, they’re combined here to give you new and different ideas. You can then set it to upload to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, email, Foursquare, Posterous, or Tumblr. Tumblr is a micro-blogging site, which allows you to post to your account directly from your phone or iPad. Using Instagram and Tumblr, together, works like this: Snap a photo of something inside your business. Then upload it to your Tumblr account and voila! What are you doing to take advantage of it? Pinterest. A lot. MORE >>