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tealinI have declined to sign up for many of the newer waves of social networking trends – I don't care about Twitter and will never, ever get on Facebook – mostly because I'm distracted enough just by email and LJ that if I had any more options for online stimulus I would never get anything done.
That said, it seems like all the good art these days is on Tumblr. I would like to be able to find it, but I have no idea how Tumblr works beyond the very basic idea of reblogging things, and I figure the only way to learn, really, is to dive in myself. I am having misgivings, though, because I strongly suspect the motivation for this whim is that I am currently bored; when things get interesting again, will having another blog-ish thing turn out to be more of a liability than an asset? Is Tumblr good for professional networking*? My head is full of questions and I don't know who to ask, so I turn to The Internet, which has an answer for everything, even if more often than not it's 'aliens did it.'
*i.e. could it get me a job somewhere exciting, or publicise my artwork to people who might buy prints etc., provided I started doing artwork that would look nice as a print?
If I did get a Tumblr I would not abandon this blog, just use it as a sort of mirror site for my art, and probably end up mostly tumbling stuff fromredscharlach who seems to be the source of 32% of excellence online. So please don't feel like you're voting on the fate of the status quo! I'm just looking for input as to whether to add another storefront to the Twirlynoodle franchise.
Please either comment here or fill out the poll on LJ ...
That said, it seems like all the good art these days is on Tumblr. I would like to be able to find it, but I have no idea how Tumblr works beyond the very basic idea of reblogging things, and I figure the only way to learn, really, is to dive in myself. I am having misgivings, though, because I strongly suspect the motivation for this whim is that I am currently bored; when things get interesting again, will having another blog-ish thing turn out to be more of a liability than an asset? Is Tumblr good for professional networking*? My head is full of questions and I don't know who to ask, so I turn to The Internet, which has an answer for everything, even if more often than not it's 'aliens did it.'
*i.e. could it get me a job somewhere exciting, or publicise my artwork to people who might buy prints etc., provided I started doing artwork that would look nice as a print?
If I did get a Tumblr I would not abandon this blog, just use it as a sort of mirror site for my art, and probably end up mostly tumbling stuff from
redscharlach who seems to be the source of 32% of excellence online. So please don't feel like you're voting on the fate of the status quo! I'm just looking for input as to whether to add another storefront to the Twirlynoodle franchise.Please either comment here or fill out the poll on LJ ...
