Rockin' the web with Tumblr | Me.dium

Jeremy Nel shares a new innovation on RSS feeds with us:

On TWiT Podcast 89, Leo and the team referred to Tumblr, and following a big debate no-one was quite certain of what benefit it would be.
Lo and behold, I find an entry on Me.dium today describing the use and value of Tumblr. Now, granted, this is obviously not a techno-phobe, but a serious techno-geek, but it is worth reading to try to understand how one can use this, if, like me, you are fascinated by the little things in life and how it affects/benefits us!

My favorite new web service (aside from me.dium, of course. No need burning my bridges on my very first day of being a featured member), is tumblr. At first, I thought it was somewhat of an online scrapbook. It was a place to post things that weren't QUITE worth putting in to a blog. Little quotes, conversations, funny images, etc. So I signed up and created a tumbl. I was immediately hooked.

Then, yesterday, a magical thing happened. Tumblr.com announced a killer new feature. RSS integration from other websites. Now, auto-magically, I can have my tumblr include my del.icio.us links, my Flickr photos, new songs I've marked as favorites on pandora.com, and so on and so forth.

Then what? Well then I can use tumblr's RSS feed to distribute to the masses. Suddenly ALL my stuff is combined in to one super, mutant RSS feed. Before this, I was relying on Yahoo! Pipes to achieve this. Their interface is powerful, but for simple things like combining RSS feeds, it was a bit much to grasp.

I thought the me.dium userbase, you tweakers, you... You bleeding-edge adapters... You deliciously glorious bunch of web hackers, you... I thought you would appreciate this.

I'm honored to be a featured me.dium user this week. I'll do my best to syndicate the way I browse the web to you. And hope that you can take away, by week-end, some tasty little morsels of knowledge. One fascinating thing about the Internet is, everyone uses it differently... And there are a million ways to skin a cat.

Until next time.