tumblelog

English

Etymology

From tumble +‎ log, an early term for microblog, coined by Jonathan Gillette in 2005, based on the tagline of Leah Neukirchen's Anarchaia blog (“experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin’”).

Noun

tumblelog (plural tumblelogs)

1. (Internet) A microblog, especially one on the Tumblr microblogging service. [from 2005]
   • 2006, Chad Fowler, Rails Recipes, Raleigh, N.C.: Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, page 195:

     For a concrete example, imagine you've created a Tumblelog, which is like a weblog but with many small posts of different types.

   • 2007, The Deal, volume 5, page 26:

     Tumblr, launched in March, allows users to publish digital files or brief blog posts to a single online location, dubbed a tumblelog.

   • 2009, Gavin Bell, Building Social Web Applications, page 133:

     Twitter and tumblelogs work equally well in this case. However, blogging and longer forms of writing are still important for communicating complex or longer ideas.

   • 2010, Richard Powers, Generosity, New York: Picador, →ISBN, page 10:

     Sue Weston details her current artwork. “It’s called 'Magpie.’ I stand in Daley Plaza, jotting down the things people say into their cells. Then I post it on a tumblelog. Amazing, what people will tell a street full of strangers.”

   • 2011, Dr Kay Irie, Dr Alison Stewart, Realizing Autonomy:

     At the same time as maintaining activity on my tumblelog, I was communicating with other bloggers outside the group, collaborating with other teachers at my own institution, reflecting alone and reading both online and on paper.

Derived terms

• Tumblr

Translations

microblog on Tumblr

• French: tumblr (fr) m
• Spanish: tumblr m