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Long content - Post lunghi nei Tumblr?

Si è acceso nei giorni scorsi un vivace dibattito tra alcuni Tumblers riguardo il postare “contenuti lunghi” su Tumblr.

La questione nasce dalla natura di Tumblr che favorisce le pubblicazioni rapide, brevi, essenziali. Secondo alcuni pubblicare contenuti lunghi (come fa ogni tanto il sottoscritto per intenderci!) snatura lo strumento ed andrebbe evitato.

E ancora cercando di alzare il livello del dibattito, un Tumblr che pubblica post lunghi e curati dovrebbe ancora essere considerato un tumblelog o piuttosto diventa un blog?

…It’s a mix of the short links (the “Linked List”) that AATW insists are appropriate for tumblelogs, not blogs, and the longer commentary that he insists is appropriate for blogs, not tumblelogs. I asked him what Daring Fireball was, then: was it a tumblelog, or a blog? It seemed to me whatever he answered, he would invalidate his own point by saying that a site he himself holds up as an excellent site violates his principles for tumblelogging versus blogging.

marco, uno degli utenti amercani più famosi, ha scritto alcune considerazioni che sposo appieno e riporto per intero:

There has been some heated debate recently on whether long posts “belong” on Tumblr. As usual, I have an opinion. (It’s the internet. What did you expect?) My authority comes not from my job, but as a long-time Tumblr user.

Yes. Long content belongs on Tumblr.

So does short content. So does nearly anything. You can use Tumblr for whatever you like.

Tumblr is a tool, first and foremost. There are plenty of community features to make it more useful to many people, but fundamentally, this is a tool. Not everyone will use it the same way. If you find that it works for long content, by all means, use it for long content. If you want every post to be 5 or fewer words, you can do that, too.

Like Daring Fireball, I also have a separate “long post” website. And you know what? I hardly ever post there anymore. Dan posts more than I do, I think. I’ve found that much of my content is better suited for the community here. Sometimes, I just feel like writing it quickly and don’t want to use my long-post-website’s CMS. And sometimes a short post becomes long and I don’t even realize it.

With Tumblr, I publish more than I ever have before. If I wasn’t writing all of this content here, it wouldn’t go on Marco.org — it just wouldn’t be written. Regardless of what you think of my content, you have to agree that having an outlet is always better than not.

If Tumblr enables people to publish valuable, original content, we’ve succeeded. And if you publish your thoughts online with the tool of your choice, you’ve succeeded. Who cares if the biggest whiners need to spend valuable milliseconds scrolling their mousewheels past the long posts on their Tumblr Dashboards?

 A mio avviso il problema non si pone.