For those who have been following my blog for a while will know that I've been quite fascinated by Tumblelogs and in particular the hosted service provided by Tumblr.

I like blogging and the nature of blogs, but I always felt uncomfortable with the formal nature of traditional blogs. Blogs like this one hosted on Blogger are designed for structured posts where you begin with a title and create your content in the body. Every post is an episode and a complete story. Personally I find that I am too busy to keep up with such structured posts and really want to share what it is in as few words as I can.

The rational is like this: what if I just wanted to share a link? Caption a photo? Embed a YouTube video?

I know it can be done in Blogger too, but not nearly as naturally and easily as a Tumblelog. And besides, why is there a need to create a title for YouTube video that already has one?

That's why I like Tumblelogs, they're organised by date and are updated with greater freedom and ease. But there are down sides to Tumblelogs too. If a post was merely a link, why would anyone permalink to a post that's only a link? I end up losing links to good finds/content. Also, the lack of structure might throw some readers off.

The above concerns aside, the biggest bug bear I had with Tumblelogs was the absence of comments. I like sharing my thoughts and finds, but that's only 50% of the conversation. Feedback, encouragement, and fresh ideas are vital to taking part in the social media. But that problem is now solved thanks to a simple hack using the JS-Kit Comments script.

So, here is my experiment.

I plan to leave this blog as it is and try blogging on my tumblelog at http://eok.tumblr.com/ for a month week (shouldn't over promise). I'm not entirely sure if I'll succeed, but it's something I have to try.

If it works out to be a better alternative, I'll even consider pointing http://eok.net/ over to the tumblelog making it my permanent blog. I've also pointed my FeedBurner link to the RSS at Tumblr for consistency.

OK, so here goes. Wish me luck!