I set up a tumbleblog several months ago. As you can see, I never did much with it and didn’t really see myself using it even from the get-go. It’s a neat idea, but I already had this going. So I moved on.
But that’s not the neat part. Last week I was introduced to 120 Minutes, a tumbleblog hosted at the same service I tried. If you’re anywhere around my age there’s a good chance you’re familiar with the MTV show of the same name–”alternative” music videos from the mid-80s through the mid-90s. In college we stopped whatever we were doing Sunday nights to watch.
Each entry in this tumbleblog is one video, uploaded by someone somewhere on YouTube. There are usually four or five added daily, so it’s like I get a mini video show each morning when I fire up my RSS reader. And the other night, I loaded up the site on the Wii and Betsy and I watched videos on TV. How novel! Music videos on a television!
Yeah, the copyright police are probably kicking and screaming–but come on. The unidentified person running this tumbleblog isn’t making a dime off of it, and MTV hasn’t shown any of these videos in a decade.
