Chapter 9. Blogging with Tumblr

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Thus far in this book, we’ve been focused on more traditional applications of blogs—yes, even building a website with WordPress isn’t so new anymore. This chapter is a bit of a departure from those chapters (and the ones that follow). In the first edition of Create Your Own Blog, there was a chapter on “Lifestreaming,” which, at the time (2008–2009), seemed like it would be “the next big thing.” The idea was simple: have a single place (something like a blog, but not quite), where you could pull together all your blog posts, tweets from Twitter, videos from YouTube, Flickr images—all of it—for people to enjoy. Turns ...

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