With the increase of blogs, microblogs like Tumblr and ‘presence’ blogs like Twitter, mediums either meld together – as I’ve attempted to do at crrrg.com by importing Twitter updates as posts – or they are each used differently.

The latter method requires a little definition which, I think, can simply be made by word-count and intent. Leaving things like intended audience out of it, we can draw the line with length. Something like:

This is a basic interpretation, but you can see how different ideas would manifest themselves on each platform.

The benefit I see of doing something like this could be to maintain audience expectation. Coupled with this is the kind of writing you do in each. Personal posts are usually brief, linkblogs and ideas longer while anything technical or in depth requires more attention, more space and more time.

If you use any of these services, this distinction has probably already been made, but I thought it could use a mention since I’ve been thinking of why I’d use wordpress.com and tumblr.com etc if I already have my own blog.

Here are the two reasons:
Tumblr and WordPress have difference audiences and reach. They are aggregated throughout a network = more reach. Plus crrrg.com posts are left to stay in depth and focused because I have other places to express ideas that may not fit in there.

Related: Dumping.