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How Posterous Is Changing Blogging

Source: Steve's shared items in Google Reader

Sep 06, 2009

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WordPress makes blogging simple. Posterous makes blogging easy. In my eyes, simple and easy are different. WordPress is great for many things. For example, I don’t see TechCrunch (Disclosure: I am an employee of TechCrunch) using Posterous to post news online. But I do see people using Posterous for those spur of the moments kind of events.

I’m sure you have all heard that email is dead, but I beg to differ. For me, email is still the biggest form of communication and I often tell people to email, and not to call me. With the phone, I feel like your obligated to reply or answer the phone call. With email, you can save it for later, and reply at your convenience. Anyways, that’s a whole different post. Back to Posterous. Posterous is bringing email back, one post at a time. Posterous’ plan is simple, just like their platform. You want to post something online? Easy. Just email it to post@posterous.com. And, as of a few weeks ago, thanks to PicPosterous, iPhone users can upload pictures and video from their iPhone to their Posterous blog. Now that’s dead simple,

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Comments (8)

Eyebee,

Sep 06, 2009

OK, it's nice to have a chat on the phone with family members sometimes, but for business and most social communications, I prefer email too. As the writer says in the article above, you can reply when you want to; you're not obligated to stop what you're doing and answer now, like the phone.

Darwinneft3245,

Sep 07, 2009

I've never heard of Posterous until now. I was using blogger. Thanks

Eyebee,

Sep 07, 2009

I have a blogger blog or two, that I rarely use, having gone over to self-hosted Wordpress some time ago. However, Posterous is still a great tool, not least because you can also set it up to auto-post to your existing blog as well as your Posterous one.

This way, you get easy-peasy email to blog functionality!

Blawrimore,

Sep 08, 2009

Both Blogger and the latest Wordpress allow posting via email. This is nothing new - just more convenient.

Tweric,

Sep 08, 2009

The ease of email means I can post blogs from my smart phone...like when I am on the bus going to work. http://ericmatas.posterous.com/

Posterous can also auto-update by other (regular?) blog. Later, if I want, I can edit the regular blog or add stuff. http://ericmatas.com

Dubrr,

Sep 08, 2009

Wow that is really cool, im actualy gonna look into it, as I am getting more involved in blogging.

Glue,

Sep 08, 2009

That's very similar to what Glue is doing as well! Glue also push out updates to many other sites like Wordpress, Facebook, MySpace, Virb, LiveJournal and More... Even Posterous itself!

Check it out at

http://GlueNow.com

Evil System,

Sep 09, 2009

There coming so much new social media comonents to the market, its difficult to not loose the control.
But social media components are very important for the most people. Its much more easy to connect them via a service like twitter or posterous, than anything else.
I will have an eye on it (I hope thats correct english)
Greetz from Germany
Guenni