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How to Use Tumblr, Posterous & Other Light Blogging Services

Source: readwriteweb

Sep 22, 2009

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Last week we took a poll asking for your favorite 'light' blogging service. These are blogging services that make it very easy for you to share content and media. While old-school blogging service Blogger.com got the most votes in our poll, newer slicker services such as Tumblr, Soup.io and the recently trendy Posterous are popular with early adopters.

Many people are only just coming to know these new services like Posterous, so in this post we give you 5 tips to get the most out of them. This post is in the same vein as our earlier How to use Facebook one.

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1. Post Lots of Media

Blogging started out in the early days as a text-heavy medium; and to this day professional blogs (such as ReadWriteWeb) rely mostly on text. But the whole point of light blogging - sometimes called micro-blogging - is to be more casual and colorful. So post lots of media: photos, video, audio. Most light blogging services offer a browser bookmarklet, which enables you to post media at the click of a button.

Here's an example of easily published media from a Posterous blog called

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Comments (1)

Eyebee,

Sep 23, 2009

Been using soup.io for a couple of months, and Posterous for longer than that, even though I've been blogging for a few years. Posterous really does offer quick and easy blog-posting direct from email - great for sharing stuff send by friends in emails.