Tumblelog

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A microblog, especially one on the Tumblr microblogging service. Internet

    "For a concrete example, imagine you've created a Tumblelog, which is like a weblog but with many small posts of different types."

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"For a concrete example, imagine you've created a Tumblelog, which is like a weblog but with many small posts of different types."

Etymology

From tumble + log, an early term for microblog, coined by Jonathan Gillette in 2005, based on the tagline of Leah Neukirchen's Anarchaia blog (“experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin’”).

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