Tumblr Instant Mini-Blogs
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Have you tried Tumblr yet?
The first I heard of Tumblr was when Leo from Zen Habits, kindly linked up to one of my posts using his Tumblr link-roll.
These light weight blogs are very simple to setup and they can be used on a subdomain like yourname.tumblr.com or on your own domain name.
Then just add a bookmarketlet to your browser and in about 2 clicks you can make a new entry to your Tumblr blog. The way Leo has used it is an excellent implementation as a list of note style posts that don’t warrant a full post on your main site.
The next time I heard of them was when Ed Dale began using them for his 30 Day Challenge. Anyone experienced in SEO would have guessed that this link-rich (each post gets it’s own “page” so these mini-blogs develop nice high quality links) platform, hosted on a trusted domain would turn into a spammer target.
It wasn’t Ed’s intention but when he broadcast out to all the 30 day challengers how to get “ranked” in Google for a keyword in about 3 hours using Tumblr, he and his challengers got slapped buy Tumblr.
Besides all the spam drama, Tumblr is a cool new entry into the blogosphere. I’ve created a blog setup notes Tumblr for my Ninja Blog Setup service. I did it as a place to store links like I mentioned above, but if it happens to rank highly in Google and send a little traffic to my main site…well, no complaints. 
You can use just links, or put a full post with an image or videos. Your mini blog has an RSS feed and can also import RSS feeds from other blogs.
It’s worth checking out Tumblr. If you set one up or discover any other cool uses or similar services, leave a link in the comments.
Update: I’ve discovered Jaiku, which is another mini-blog, similar to Tumblr, but Jaiku allows comments.
