Web 2.o. The new social web. It’s all about what other people think. Who ranked this, who dugged (thanks to Fire Fox I know that isn’t a word, but in the spirit of this post, I don’t really care much) that, how many winked the other. Lots of ups and lots of downs.

It’s all about what everyone else thinks. A mad scramble to seek the lowest common opinion and get launched like so much digital debris to the front page where much love and untargeted traffic will beat the crap out of your server.

Don’t get me wrong. I love the concepts of a social web. I think reader participation is great. I love my readers (Heck I even got Scott Jangro to call you readers instead of visitors - That’s so much nicer, don’t you think?). But at some point, I have to kick and scream a little and indulge my inner two year old.

It’s all about me, baby!

That’s why I was so pleased to stumble upon (see, it keeps creeping up, doesn’t it?) Tumblr.com Tumblelogs. And in jst a few minutes of pointing and clicking on colors, I had my very own Home Business Blogging Tumblelog. I’m kinda proud of it.

No one can vote against it. No one can worse still not vote for it. It’s all about me. A stray thought pops into my ADD rattled brain and it take 60 seconds to infect the 3 people I anticipate becoming regular readers. I can post anything that strikes me. and, unlike my WordPress blogs, it seems to promote short concise posting (something most of my readers here would appreciate, no doubt).

Right now it has a Page Rank of 1 and virtually no traffic according to Alexa, but I predict it is going to catch on. I think it’s time we all had some “me space” and it’s about time we could all just grab a quick random thought here and there without feeling like we have to dissect it, carbon date it, toxicity test it and generally bend fold and spindle it.

Go grab your own Tumblelog. Post something short and pithy, then come back here and post the URI. I promise to read it! And what’s better, I promise not to vote on it!

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