I for one say “yes”. They are all good and all have their use. And even more daunting is that they each have very compelling capability sets: Wordpress is ideal for my serious blogging commentary, Twitter for quick blasts out to others (group instant messaging) and Tumblr is an easy to use micro-blogging tool where it is much easier to post quotes, video and pictures as well as random posts.
I am not a full time social software guy, I work full time. Social software are tools I use to communicate my thoughts and collaborate with others. And there is no way to tie them together. Why can I not have a tool that allows me to editorially select which of my Tumbles into my Wordpress blog, correlate where I have most of my serious contextual posts. It would be great to tie them together. My sense if I don’t find a way to merge my posting with some editorial decisions soon, I’m going to have to shut down my tumbling because I simply do not have the time to bounce around. That would be unfortunate because the Tumblr interface does afford me an easier blogging interface than Wordpress and more flexibility than Twitter. Anyway fully move their blogging over to Tumblr completely? Seems to be a tough proposition for those who are blogging on a particular theme on one of the standard blogging platforms.
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