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We here at Tumbletiquette are, how do you say, hung over, so everyone just sit in your chairs with the lights off while we find some reader mail. Ah, here:

Hi Tumbletiquette,   I have both a Blogspot blog, which I consider my “real” blog, and a tumblr, which I consider a place to post fun pictures and random crap like that.  What is the rule regarding posting something on both my blog and my tumblr?  See, I have these running posts on Tumblr that are starting to get more involved in that I’m writing more personal things, which I usually save for my “real” blog.  I’d like to post them to my “real” blog as well, but I don’t to annoy anyone who reads both or become repetitious.  Part of this dilemma has to do with the fact that Tumblr, annoyingly, doesn’t have a depository for things I’ve “tagged”, which is part of the reason I blog in the first place: to keep track of my life.    So what’s the correct way of doing this?  Do I: a) Post only on Tumblr b) Post only on my blog, and go back to posting less involved things on my Tumblr c) Post the same thing to both my blog and Tumblr, but possibly adding to the post on my blog so that the posts are somewhat different

Dear Reader,
If you do, in fact, have several people reading both your Tumblr and your Blogspot (how dedicated!), I am afraid you should probably pick one or the other platform. If you can hold up the distinction that one blog is for the “real” subject matter and one is for lolcats and the like, then the need for two blogs is justifiable. But if there is a continuous bleed of similar matter between the two, it’s time to pick your foxhole.
That being said, if the “cross-posts” (my, that brings up LiveJournal nostalgia) are kept to a small enough number, arbitrarily, say 10%, simply write in the header Cross Posted: [subject]. This will let your readers know that they can skim the post.
The best option to us seems to pick a platform (we may be biased, but: Tumblr!) and stick with that one, combining your unique readers from both blogs. But a compromise may be met in this situation.
Thank you, Reader! As always, we are accepting further questions and dilemmas.