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To get feedback from followers and engage in an ongoing forum-style dialogue,
no matter what type of Tumblr blog you create, consider using a free commenting
platform powered by Disqus. With Disqus, Tumblr users can converse publicly
with followers. This is quite different from Tumblr's Ask feature, which can be
public or private and only allows for a single Q and A. For more information about
Creating versus Collecting Content
Once you've decided
what
to post on your Tumblr blog, the next thing to consider is
whether you'll be creating new content, collecting content from other sources, or com-
bining new and collected information on your blog in some kind of interesting and uni-
fied way. Of course, there are as many ways to build a blog as there are people, so what
you ultimately choose to do is entirely up to you and your imagination.
Creating content
Tumblr blogs that
create
content almost exclusively present original ideas and media re-
lated to a single topic or things that reflect an individual or group's personality, in-
terests, or goals. In most cases, this means posting only new and original entries that
haven't been taken from anyone or anywhere else, either on the Web or from another
source.
The major benefit of this type of blog is that you can almost absolutely bypass any po-
tential legal issues related to copyright infringement. By showing your own work and
ideas, you run virtually no risk of being sued, or of having to pay fees or fines for using
someone else's work without permission. For instance, you might create a Tumblr blog
to illustrate pictures of your daily outfits, the way Jessica Quirk does at
ht-
tp://whatiwore.tumblr.com
(shown in Figure 3-1).
