Blogs. Who in their right mind is seriously maintaining their own personal blog these days? Everyone knows they’re basically ‘So 9 years ago’ and is there really anyone in this world interested in what kind of mundane things I do every day? No I didn’t think so either.

A few friends of mine tried to push me (yet again ) to relaunch my old myshuno.net website. It seemed like a nice idea cause it’s been offline for quite a while, but I didn’t really know what to do with it. My site used to be a blog, but in the current era of social sites like Facebook and Twitter, personal blogs are really becoming a bit redundant. Why go to someone’s website if you could follow him/her on Twitter and Facebook?

But the thing is, even though those social sites are great to share things, they’re still a bit limiting. On Twitter, you’re still bound to your 140 character limit. Unless you’re one of those people who like to tell entire stories with streams of Tweets, which is really annoying, so: stop it. And on Facebook it’s really hard to publicly share things with your friends, without being pushed away by a gazillion pointless messages from Farmville polluting everyone’s news streams…

So maybe there’s still a purpose for blogs in this world after all: Not as a separate website like some kind of island on the internet, but more like an extension to the existing social web we love to use right now.

So I wanted my new site to be more like a premium version of Twitter: Without any limits, and with features to share more than just text and links, like photos, quotes and video, but with an easy and accessible platform to support it. And no ads, I hate ads. So it’s got to be cheap or preferably free as well.
I know it’s quite a list of demands, and you might think that nobody would ever build something like that. But you’d be wrong.

Which brings me to where we are right now. During my quest to find the perfect system to support my site, I’ve stumbled upon Tumblr.
It seems like the exact fit to what I want for my site, so I’ve decided to move and relaunch my website on Tumblr. And here we are!

What I like about Tumblr is that you can just upload little blurbs of text, photos or whatever, instead of creating entire blog posts. Which, ironically, I’m doing right now, but that’s not the point.

Anywho, expect to see some more around here very soon. Probably not as elaborate as this post, but we’ll see…