tumblelog

English

Etymology

tumble +‎ log, an early term for microblog, coined by why the lucky stiff in 2005, based on the tagline of Leah Neukirchen's Anarchaia blog (“experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin’”).[1][2]

Noun

tumblelog (plural tumblelogs)

(Internet) A microblog, especially one on the Tumblr microblogging service. [from 2005]
- 2006, Chad Fowler, Rails Recipes, Raleigh, N.C.: Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, page 195:
  For a concrete example, imagine you've created a Tumblelog, which is like a weblog but with many small posts of different types.
- 2007, The Deal (volume 5, page 26)
  Tumblr, launched in March, allows users to publish digital files or brief blog posts to a single online location, dubbed a tumblelog.
- 2009, Gavin Bell, Building Social Web Applications, page 133:
  Twitter and tumblelogs work equally well in this case. However, blogging and longer forms of writing are still important for communicating complex or longer ideas.
- 2010, Richard Powers, Generosity, New York: Picador, →ISBN, page 10:
  Sue Weston details her current artwork. “It’s called 'Magpie.’ I stand in Daley Plaza, jotting down the things people say into their cells. Then I post it on a tumblelog. Amazing, what people will tell a street full of strangers.”
- 2011, Dr Kay Irie, Dr Alison Stewart, Realizing Autonomy
  At the same time as maintaining activity on my tumblelog, I was communicating with other bloggers outside the group, collaborating with other teachers at my own institution, reflecting alone and reading both online and on paper.

Derived terms

Tumblr

Translations

microblog on Tumblr

French: tumblr (fr) m
Spanish: tumblr m

References

Tom Cheshire (March 2012), “Tumbling on success: How Tumblr's David Karp built a £500 million empire”, in Wired UK‎, ISSN 1357-0978
why the lucky stiff (2005-04-12), “Stop, For Blogging's Sake”, in RedHanded‎, archived from the original on 2005-11-07: “ […] I don’t think I’ve seen a blog like Chris Neukirchen’s Anarchaia, which fudges together a bunch of disparate forms of citation (links, quotes, flickrings) into a very long and narrow and distracted tumblelog.”

[1] Tom Cheshire (March 2012), “Tumbling on success: How Tumblr's David Karp built a £500 million empire”, in Wired UK‎, ISSN 1357-0978

[2] why the lucky stiff (2005-04-12), “Stop, For Blogging's Sake”, in RedHanded‎, archived from the original on 2005-11-07: “ […] I don’t think I’ve seen a blog like Chris Neukirchen’s Anarchaia, which fudges together a bunch of disparate forms of citation (links, quotes, flickrings) into a very long and narrow and distracted tumblelog.”