I Am Very Tall

I got bored last night and set up a new tumblelog, iamverytall.tumblr.com. For those of you that don't know what a tumblog is, the line that they give is:

"If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks."

After actually looking at how tumblelogs (that's a really long name, now that I have to keep typing it) work, I have to admit that I don't really get it. The chief differentiator between a tlog (ah, much shorter) and a blog is that it's a lot easier to add media posts to tlogs than it is to blogs, e.g. you don't have to find an alternate site to host that mp3 that you want to put up, you can e-mail photos from your phone, etc. But that's additional functionality, and it doesn't preclude me from using tumblr in the exact same way that I use Blogger. Maybe I'm missing something, but it's hard to see why a blog is any more text-friendly than the tlog, save for the most superficial of reasons. Bottom line, there's no obvious reason that the tblog can't be both a journal and a scrapbook, and if I'm going to manage an online presence, I'd rather do it where I have more options, not less.

Of course, I could be missing something. So I'll play along with it for now, and will probably use it to post music, pictures, etc.