Reblog vs. Comment
I recently made the switch from my blog at pixelspread to focus on matt.cc. There are a few reasons that made the decision seem pretty simple. First and foremost, Tumblr has quickly become my favorite blogging engine. It makes posting quick and simple, it allows for multiple post types, the theming system is simple and straight forward, and it has a great community.
Secondly, I wanted to divide my personal blog and my design portfolio. I felt it was a bit more professional to keep the two slightly separate, especially when pointing clients to my portfolio, I felt routing them throw a blog isn’t the best way to show off my work.
Lastly, I’m starting to see comments as more of a hassle than a feature. I found myself installing multiple spam filters and would still have to spend a half hour or more a week deleting the spam comments that leaked through. I’ve found that Tumblr’s system of reblogging is a win-win. You don’t have to take responsibility of others’ comments, they aren’t hosted on your site, and you get free links back from other sites. And of course the benefit for the reblogger is that they get some content for their own site.
If you were subscribed to the matt.cc feed, everything is the same. If you were subscribed to the pixelspread feed, I’ve started routing select articles from matt.cc into that feed, so you’ll be getting similar content to what I would have posted on the pixelspread blog.
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