Welcome to Trivium, my new blog that aims to merge the best parts of a tumblelog and a “classic” blog full of editorial, essayish content (which is not that classic at all, but this will be the topic of a later post). The topics discussed here will be various, and there are several influences I cannot hide: among them undeniably the way of posting commented links and papers like John Baez, This weeks finds in mathematical physics, the slashed lists of Things Magazine and Matt Webb’s recent, titleless Interconnected. kottke.org and daringfireball.net shall be mentioned as well.
A tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream of consciousness, a bit like a remaindered links style linklog but with more than just links. They remind me of an older style of blogging, back when people did sites by hand,
"The smart thing to be doing online these days is tumblelogging, which is to weblogs what text messages are to email - short, to the point, and direct."
Unlike blogs, tumblelogs aren't designed like a newspaper column. They're the easiest way to share everything you find, love, hate, or create — even if you're not wordy.
"A tumblelog (or tlog) is a variation of a blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video."
A. Shakya, H. Takeda, I. Ohmukai, and V. Wuwongse. The Semantic Web - ASWC 2006 Workshops Proceedings, page 55-62. Beijing, China, Jilin University Press, (September 2006)
T. Yoshinaka, S. Ishii, T. Fukuhara, H. Masuda, and H. Nakagawa. Proceedings of the 2008/2009 international conference on Social software: recent trends and developments in social software, page 88--99. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, (2010)