(s)tumbling to failure.
So I don’t see the analogy to the closed nature of an iPad;
No analogy at all really. I just thought it was funny that I read an article called “I love walled gardens” right after reading your post about Tumblr being a walled garden.
…So fine, that non-walled blogging platforms exist is great and all, but if you are in your garden, I have to join or choose to not participate in your conversations. See below why I actually bothered to sign up with tumblr…
FYI, Twitter has lost a lot of its interest to me with its reply policy change, because I can no longer see one-sided conversations and jump in if you are talking to someone I don’t follow about a topic I might have something to say about…
The reason I’ve followed you onto tumblr is primarily because I really, really wanted to comment on your picky eater post, and couldn’t find a way to do so that didn’t involve registering for an account and associated blog. Alas, I didn’t stick to my principles, caved, and am helping tumblr gain content. Sigh.
Again, the not-being-able-to-jump-in-to-a-conversation-without-joining is a lot like twitter and is thus no more a walled garden than twitter is. But if you’re unhappy with twitter (and I definitely agree that it is a lot less fun with the new @reply policy), then I can certainly see how you’d be unhappy with tumblr.
As for leaving comments w/o signing up for tumblr: I think there is a way to do it, but I think the theme I chose doesn’t include it. My bad. I’ll look into getting a new theme (or modifying this one), but I’m kinda slow at doing that kind of thing nowadays.
That said, I still don’t think I’m doing it right, given that I haven’t seen my initial response show up as a comment or reference off of your original post.
Your reblog shows under the “n notes” under my post. At least it shows up for me—let me know if it isn’t showing up for you.
