Comments on: I Win, You Win, We Win – Bi-Directional Benefit

By: Micah

Micah — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:13:44 +0000

@mirza Current Wisdom was a search marketing agency I owned for 8 years, and sold last year.

I guess at the end of the day, it depends on what kinda of blog platform you want, and what you want it to do. I look at it like this:

- Twitter: quick random thoughts
- Tumblr: short form blogging
- WordPress: long form blogging

I had comments on my tumblr for awhile, but then decided to take them off. I might put them back on. I used Intense Debate, which worked pretty well.

Add Lijit to your tumblog and tell me what you think.

By: Mirza

Mirza — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:16:31 +0000

To be completely honest, I am bored by the fact that everyone wants to keep Tumblr minimalistic. When i first started using Tumblr, I expected to use it just for sharing links. But proved to be much easier to use than all the other blog platforms I have use. Right now, I use Tumblr as a tumble-log cum blog. I mean it does everything for me that Blogger or wordpress (which makes everything feel too complicated for me) does (except tags,sitemaps,multiple posts and better google indexing).I do however agree that its not for professional blogging. Commenting helps interaction with other users so much easier. If you want to keep your tumble-log neat, just don’t show the comment link on the from page. If you are however planning on adding comments to tumblr, I would recommend Disqus (since they have an easy installation method for tumblr). On a side note, what exactly was Current Wisdom (right now it’s a blog) ?

@Allan: as a web designer, I recommend getting rid of the automated music on The Natural Life.

By: Micah

Micah — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:41:42 +0000

@allan sure, drop me a line at micah at currentwisdom dot com. Love to hear more.

@Mirza I agree (and not just because I work at Lijit). The search box you outline on your tumblog is very cool, with the real time results, but it seems to do only keyword based searches. Plus, what I like about lijit is that your content could show up in my search results mixed with my social content, which is even more interesting (if I say so myself…)

As for comments, I used to use Intense Debate on my blog, and I was going to add comments to my MicahBaldwin.com tumblog, but I keep thinking that Tumblr is good as a minimalist site, versus a full featured blog. Do you agree?

By: Mirza

Mirza — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:38:05 +0000

This is off-topic from your post above. But anyways I was reading your tumble-log, I came across the piece where you spoke about Litjit. I have tried Litjit. It does a good job but for searching tumble-logs the fastest and best way to find things (without even indexing your pages is using the Tumblr API-powered search. Its pretty easy to set up and the results are instant. You can find a tutorial to install it here:http://www.ziked.com/post/5326924.
Also you should consider adding commenting to your tumble-log – makes it a lot easier to interact with other users.

By: Allan Warren

Allan Warren — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:58:42 +0000

Hi Micah, Dave Guarnieri told me to get in touch with you regarding a business plan that I am trying to write for a Web site that I've started, The Natural Life. The site started as a blog, though one with multiple contributors, but I'm trying to incorporate more user driven content aspects, such as an outdoor recreation guide, a volunteer database, google mapping software and news/commentary about the environment and outdoor recreation. The business plan is part of a graduate student competition that I'm entering here in Nevada, but also just for me to do in order to spin this project forward once I graduate in May. I was wondering if you have any ROI data on user-generated content sites and any and all suggestions you might have for increasing both traffic and UGC on my site.