http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/tag/tumblr en-us 40 thoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect <p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href="http://tumblr.com">Tumblr</a> off and on since early April. I tend to neglect it because I&#8217;ve found the interface a bit clumsy. The recent redesign hasn&#8217;t improved on the things that I consider obstacles in getting things quickly added to my tumblr. Since the concept behind the tumblr is to quickly share things with people, the interface doesn&#8217;t facilitate this workflow as quickly as I think it could.</p> <p>In any event, I tend to not login to my dashboard very often (few times a week?), which means that I don&#8217;t post as often as I&#8217;d like.</p> <p>A few months ago, I finally started to use the Feeds feature in tumblr, which will automatically add things to your tumblr from an <span class="caps">RSS</span> feed.</p> <div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/tumblr-20071219-120651/"><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/tumblr-20071219-120651.jpg/preview.jpg" alt="Tumblr" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080" href="http://plasq.com/skitch">Uploaded with Skitch!</a></div> <p>The first feed that I started to use was <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/robbyrussell">my Flickr account</a>.</p> <h2>Flickr to Tumblr</h2> <p>This solution for this was to tag photos that I want Tumblr to automatically with <strong>&#8216;to:tumblr&#8217;</strong>.</p> <div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/flickr_to_tumblr-20071219-123647/"><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/flickr_to_tumblr-20071219-123647.jpg/preview.jpg" alt="flickr to tumblr" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080" href="http://plasq.com/skitch">Uploaded with Skitch!</a></div> <p>Next, you just need to grab the <span class="caps">URL</span> for the Flickr <span class="caps">RSS</span> feed for photos tagged with to:tumblr.</p> <div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/totumblr-20071219-121021/"><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/totumblr-20071219-121021.jpg/preview.jpg" alt="totumblr" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080" href="http://plasq.com/skitch">Uploaded with Skitch!</a></div> <p>Next, you&#8217;ll want to add this feed to Tumblr.</p> <div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/tumblr-20071219-121210/"><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/tumblr-20071219-121210.jpg/preview.jpg" alt="Tumblr" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080" href="http://plasq.com/skitch">Uploaded with Skitch!</a></div> <p>Voila&#8230; in a little while, your photos tagged with to:tumblr will start to show up on your Tumblr.</p> <h2>Del.icio.us to Tumblr</h2> <p>Links to blog articles, web sites, etc&#8230; are things that I generally use Deli.cio.us for&#8230; so doing it once for each was taking too much. So, I&#8217;m now using the same tagging formula with Del.icio.us to get Tumblr to automatically add links to my Tumblr.</p> <div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/add_bookmark-20071219-121603/"><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/add_bookmark-20071219-121603.jpg/preview.jpg" alt="Add Bookmark" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080" href="http://plasq.com/skitch">Uploaded with Skitch!</a></div> <p>Now, I can use the <span class="caps">RSS</span> feed for items tagged with <strong>to:tumblr</strong> on my del.icio.us account with Tumblr.</p> <div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/tumblr-20071219-121859/"><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/tumblr-20071219-121859.jpg/preview.jpg" alt="Tumblr" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080" href="http://plasq.com/skitch">Uploaded with Skitch!</a></div> <p>Pretty simple. :-)</p> <h2>Google Reader to Tumblr</h2> <p>Another place that I find myself wanting to post to Tumblr is from within <a href="http://google.com/reader">Google Reader</a>. Well, it&#8217;s actually really easy to do this by taking advantage of the <span class="caps">RSS</span> feed that Google Reader provides for your Shared Items.</p> <p><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/google_reader_shared-20071219-122208.jpg" alt="google reader shared"/></p> <p>Just grab the <span class="caps">RSS</span> feed from here&#8230;</p> <div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/shared_rss_link-20071219-122432/"><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/shared_rss_link-20071219-122432.jpg/preview.jpg" alt="shared rss link" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080" href="http://plasq.com/skitch">Uploaded with Skitch!</a></div> <p>Then add this <span class="caps">RSS</span> feed to Tumblr like the examples above.</p> <h2>Putting Tumblr to work for You!</h2> <p>I&#8217;m hoping to continue using this pattern with other sites as well. I&#8217;d be interested in hearing how other people are using Tumblr to aggregate focused content in an easy to browse way.</p> <h3>Update</h3> <p>It appears that Tumblr currently only allows you to use five feeds to import. Until they upgrade this limit, you can use <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Pipes</a> to do some of the heavy lifting.</p> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:27:00 -0600 urn:uuid:ed388dbf-9202-4b11-9bb3-f5b41f1ff6f1 Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/12/19/putting-tumblr-to-work-for-you tumblr skitch delicious flickr google reader rss xml feeds hacks <p>I&#8217;m digging the new friends feature on <a href="http://tumblr.com">tumblr</a>. If you&#8217;re tumblin&#8217;... consider adding me as a friend.</p> <ul> <li>my tumblr: <a href="http://robbyrussell.tumblr.com/">Robby See, Robby Share</a></li> </ul> <p>Also, you should check out the <a href=":http://caboose.tumblr.com"><code>#caboose</code> tumblr</a>, which court3nay setup the other day with a friendly <span class="caps">IRC</span> bot.</p> Wed, 02 May 2007 13:18:00 -0500 urn:uuid:1c7e9edd-c651-4a36-856c-aa46077e321c Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/05/02/to-think-that-tumblin-was-a-thing-of-the-past Off-Topic tumblr caboose irc rbot