Before Google+, whenever I encountered something interesting (say, an article about Japanese language and culture) I had to just send an email to a group of people, while role playing gamers where mostly a distinct group, even if some of these where maybe also in the SW developer group, or interested in Japan too...

I could of course just do the same, mapping all the current circles to mailing lists or aliases, but this would probably be much more cumbersome to manage (i.e. when posting from my iPhone) and of course I would lose the "community" aspect: a lot of my current 300 followers were people I got in touch because we were both following others on Google+.

- I have no Facebook account and I do not want to change this. - I do have Twitter but is basically dormient (I created an account for purely technical reasons but I have tweeted maybe 3 messages on it and do not use it as a reader, either). - Getting people like friends and family to follow me on Google+ was already a bit of a pain when it was alive and kicking (but then it also allowed to make posts "public", which helped a bit) so moving to something maybe even better but obscure (e.g. Diaspora) I am afraid would be very self limiting.

Having said that, what would you suggest? Remember that is mostly to be able to tell people "you can find stuff I am interested in here..." so I am thinking of Tumbler, even if I understand that there is no way to segment the posts by "circles" so people interested in Calligraphy will have to sort through RPG related posts and other stuff they are not really interested in.

(I do have a personal website, but it is not a blog and it is static, backed by an HTML generator, so updating via iPhone is impossible)