I’ve seen a bit of motion around tumblelogs (or lifelogs) recently and I signed up at Tumblr to see what the commotion was about. Basically, a tumblelog is a personal aggregator with a blog style display.
I’m normally an “I want to run my own” kind of guy, but I rather like having an external service for this. I’ve pointed alexking.info to my tumblelog on Tumblr (alexkingorg.tumblr.com). If I decide I really like it, I’ll probably design a custom template for it at some point.
Mine pulls from:
- my blog (you’re reading it now)
- my golf blog
- my Twitter “microblog”
- my Flickr photos
- my del.icio.us bookmarks
- my YouTube videos
- King Design’s news section (I’m not sure if this should be there or not…)
and creates a single chronological timeline of all the content.
I’m not sure how useful this is, but it’s certainly fun and egotastic. 
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Dougal Campbell adds this Comment:
I’ve created a LifeFeed using Yahoo! Pipes:
http://pipes.yahoo.c[...]GvWp0cdrq02Q
I’m not actually using it for anything, but I’ve considered pulling that feed into a blog instance.
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:11 am
Bakkel adds this Comment:
Maybe the generated RSS feed is useful for something.
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Wess Daniels adds this Comment:
i didn’t realize you could do all that cool stuff with it, thanks for the pointer.
March 24th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:
I’ve been using Planet for this on GFMorris.net, albeit with far more character encoding issues and less styling. [’Cause I’m lazy like that.]
March 25th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
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“Share on Tumblr” is the best feature, found in Goodies. Just clickety click around the web, find something interesting, click on the “Share on Tumblr” button and it is submitted to tumblr. The Firefox implementation is a bit slicker than IE but that is a browser thing. You can see the randomness at beyondstatic.tumblr.com how useful it has been for me. Can someone make a “Share on mywordpress” plugin? ha ha
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