In an earlier post today, regarding Typepad’s release of Micro, a new ‘micro blogging’ implementation on the Typepad platform, I (Stowe Boyd) called for interoperable tumbling between blog platforms:
[via www.stoweboyd.com]
Reblog is not built in to every blog, so even if I am an active Typepad Micro user, I can’t reblog every post of every Typepad blog. It requires the blog’s owner to change to a Micro template, like Chroma. This is a major problem, and will slow the adoption of Micro. At the very least Six Apart should add a reblog capability to the bookmarklet, so that users can reblog all Typepad blog posts. This might even be extended to support reblogging of other blogging platforms’ posts, like Tumblr, Moveable Type, and Wordpress, for example. Ultimately, interoperable reblogging and favoriting are going to be demanded by users. It is a social good for interoperability of this sort to exist. In fact, I am going to kick off a project in Microsyntax.org calling for conventions to be considered that will support this.
I must admit I did not fully understand the concept of Tumblr. I found out now that it’s like twitter, but with much less limitations, and it allows for something between micro- and long form blogging, it makes re-blogging easy etc.
My objection: yet another platform. Long live the distributed publishing, the stream of comments, re-tweets, re-blogs etc, but I’d like to combine Posterous and Tumblr and Twitter and Facebook even not to mention poor FriendFeed and my MixedRealities blog…
Typepad is now offering this Tumblr-like service, but I’d just like to reblog and favorite on my blog, not on a separate micro-blog. As says Boyd, blogging is not necessarily either micro or long-form, it can be both.
I also like his idea and efforts (microsyntax initiative) in favor of interoperability and some useful conventions for tumbling…
I wonder how one could combine virtual worlds, augmented reality, and this enriched notion of the internet of streams (micro-blogs, tumbling, long form blogs, sharing of links, pics, videos, geotagging…)
If you have any suggestions feel free to comment on this post or you can also do so in Google Wave, where MixedRealities has a public wave.
Roland Legrand