I just discovered Posterous
Recently, I reevaluated my blogging patterns. Frankly, I was tired of having a blog but not really running a blog. I have come to believe that blog is a verb. And if you don’t keep at it and update it relatively frequently, at some point it is no longer a blog…it just blah.
So, I was trying to find a way to post to one place easily – even effortlessly if possible – and then have all the related things happen automagically – post the blog post in the right place, update twitter, assign tags, put photos up on facebook and flickr, etc. And I didn’t find anything that could really do that. Tumblr came close, but it was a bit of a pain to get it to work the way I wanted.
Then I found Posterous. This web service allows you to simply email almost anything to one address and then – presto – it does everything for you. It puts your videos online, tosses them over to youtube or vimeo or both, updates twitter, creates picasa or flickr image galleries, creates podcast friendly sounds posts, etc. It pushes your posts to other blog sites, so they are updated as well. And with various clever codes tossed into your emails, you can add tags and other meta-data. I hope you will be able to designate wordpress categories soon as I need that feature and I haven’t figured out how to do that yet.
What’s more there is a handy iphone app that makes posting pictures from your phone a snap. All in all, a great tool and one that I am eager to use and watch develop. If you blog – check it out!
