I apologize for the wall of text. I got to the end of what I was writing and looked back and kind of went, "Gah!" This may be more than you wanted to know because I tend to get wordy and to keep thinking of just one more thing I probably ought to say.
We have a Tumblr with attached reading list, but it needs to be weeded a good bit. I've looked at it a little, but I haven't had time to try to figure out what we should get rid of or even if using a reading list is a good way to find stuff on Tumblr at all. The Feedly blog list pretty much eats up all of my time. I did, however, get the impression that the ratio of usable meta to other types of posts wasn't what we really needed.
The other moderator and I are pretty much ignorant of Tumblr and really have no idea how to find anything beyond following a few blogs and hoping that meta turns up. That's a fairly poor strategy when dealing with the Niagara Falls of new content.
I think there are two (maybe three) Tumblrs we follow that regularly produce meta-- One is ASOIAF related, and one is Buffy related (and the LJ Buffy newsletter pulls meta from that Tumblr anyway, and we've been getting the links from there, so I'm not sure we should keep following it). Both of those are aggregators, at least as far as I can gather, and maybe, finding other aggregators might be useful.
Basically, you'd be largely charting your own course. Tumblr is so big that trying to sift through all of it is likely to take far too much time to be realistic. My suggestion would be to pick a few fandoms or topics that interest you (however many you're comfortable with) and see what's available for them specifically. I don't know whether that would mean following specific blogs or searching for specific terms at regular intervals or what. You wouldn't be limited to what you chose to start. You could add or subtract or change your focus.
I did determine at one point, through experimentation, that it takes about an hour to go back through twenty four hours of posts on the current reading list. I don't see that as a reasonable investment of time for most (any?) people. I think it would lead rapidly and inevitably to burnout. I'd like to think that there's a better way, but I'm sufficiently ignorant of Tumblr that I really don't have much to suggest.
When we link on Tumblr now, we try to figure out who posted the item originally and link there. Figuring out who posted originally is also important because we try not to link anything that's more than a couple of months old, mostly because of the time involved in trying to make sure the particular item hasn't been linked in a previous newsletter. Of course, sometimes multiple people have added important stuff to the post, so you have to use your judgment about how much to strip away.
I'm hoping that whatever new volunteers we get can find a time commitment that works for them long term and that isn't overwhelming. I don't know what that would look like for you or how best to tailor link finding on Tumblr so that it fits what you're able and willing to do right now.
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We have a Tumblr with attached reading list, but it needs to be weeded a good bit. I've looked at it a little, but I haven't had time to try to figure out what we should get rid of or even if using a reading list is a good way to find stuff on Tumblr at all. The Feedly blog list pretty much eats up all of my time. I did, however, get the impression that the ratio of usable meta to other types of posts wasn't what we really needed.
The other moderator and I are pretty much ignorant of Tumblr and really have no idea how to find anything beyond following a few blogs and hoping that meta turns up. That's a fairly poor strategy when dealing with the Niagara Falls of new content.
I think there are two (maybe three) Tumblrs we follow that regularly produce meta-- One is ASOIAF related, and one is Buffy related (and the LJ Buffy newsletter pulls meta from that Tumblr anyway, and we've been getting the links from there, so I'm not sure we should keep following it). Both of those are aggregators, at least as far as I can gather, and maybe, finding other aggregators might be useful.
Basically, you'd be largely charting your own course. Tumblr is so big that trying to sift through all of it is likely to take far too much time to be realistic. My suggestion would be to pick a few fandoms or topics that interest you (however many you're comfortable with) and see what's available for them specifically. I don't know whether that would mean following specific blogs or searching for specific terms at regular intervals or what. You wouldn't be limited to what you chose to start. You could add or subtract or change your focus.
I did determine at one point, through experimentation, that it takes about an hour to go back through twenty four hours of posts on the current reading list. I don't see that as a reasonable investment of time for most (any?) people. I think it would lead rapidly and inevitably to burnout. I'd like to think that there's a better way, but I'm sufficiently ignorant of Tumblr that I really don't have much to suggest.
When we link on Tumblr now, we try to figure out who posted the item originally and link there. Figuring out who posted originally is also important because we try not to link anything that's more than a couple of months old, mostly because of the time involved in trying to make sure the particular item hasn't been linked in a previous newsletter. Of course, sometimes multiple people have added important stuff to the post, so you have to use your judgment about how much to strip away.
I'm hoping that whatever new volunteers we get can find a time commitment that works for them long term and that isn't overwhelming. I don't know what that would look like for you or how best to tailor link finding on Tumblr so that it fits what you're able and willing to do right now.