Sorting out how to engage with Posterous

2009/08/05 in Posterous by peg | 11 comments

So what do you do with the first post to a blog? I’m still trying to understand if I want Posterous to replace my existing blog (http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/), or to compliment it. I expect I’ll send this so there’s something in Posterous and then look at integrating it with other channels.

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  • brucecooper

    What advantage does posterous give you over wordpress? Sure, they've got a nice gimmick for getting you to sign up with them, but in the end you need to sign up to customise anything anyway and from that point on its just another blog site which doesn't have as many features as wordpress. Don't get me wrong, I'm not dismissing the idea out of hand… I'm just trying to understand the attractions

  • http://peter.evans-greenwood.com Peter Evans-Greenwood

    I'm wondering the same thing. Emailing in content is kinda nice, but it won't cut it for the longer stuff and I have Twitter for short “look what I stood in” messages. Is there a whole between the two of these that Posterous can fill; the times you want to write a few paragraphs, which is too much for twitter but not enough to be bothered with the blog admin interface. If I do use it, I'll have it funneling content into the blog rather than relying on folk visiting yet-another-web-site.

  • brucecooper

    WordPress supports email-to-post as well. From having a look at Postereous it looks like they do some nice auto-content conversion for attachments that might be better (or might not) than wordpress, but it is definitely supported

    I think postereous would be good for somebody that doesn't want any control over their blog, like the proverbial mums and dads. For tech savy people, the flexibility that wordpress provides is unbeatable.

  • http://peter.evans-greenwood.com Peter Evans-Greenwood

    The rich content handling and web clipping would seem to be the things that would push you to Posterous. Being able to email/clip some bit of content with a few paragraphs of commentary and have the content land on wordpress/flicker/youtube/… as appropriate is nice. But will I use it?

  • http://internetschoon.nl rickmans

    You might want to read these two items:
    http://rickmans.posterous.com/posterous-is-the-…
    http://jonmulholland.posterous.com/why-is-poste…
    It's a great hub for your content.

  • http://peter.evans-greenwood.com Peter Evans-Greenwood

    Well put, and that's kind of what I'm thinking. I expect I'll just need to Posterous a go and see what happens.

  • http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/ Peter Evans-Greenwood

    I'm wondering the same thing. Emailing in content is kinda nice, but it won't cut it for the longer stuff and I have Twitter for short “look what I stood in” messages. Is there a whole between the two of these that Posterous can fill; the times you want to write a few paragraphs, which is too much for twitter but not enough to be bothered with the blog admin interface. If I do use it, I'll have it funneling content into the blog rather than relying on folk visiting yet-another-web-site.

  • http://www.brucecooper.net Bruce Cooper

    WordPress supports email-to-post as well. From having a look at Postereous it looks like they do some nice auto-content conversion for attachments that might be better (or might not) than wordpress, but it is definitely supported

    I think postereous would be good for somebody that doesn't want any control over their blog, like the proverbial mums and dads. For tech savy people, the flexibility that wordpress provides is unbeatable.

  • http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/ Peter Evans-Greenwood

    The rich content handling and web clipping would seem to be the things that would push you to Posterous. Being able to email/clip some bit of content with a few paragraphs of commentary and have the content land on wordpress/flicker/youtube/… as appropriate is nice. But will I use it?

  • http://dontmindrick.com rickmans

    You might want to read these two items:
    http://rickmans.posterous.com/posterous-is-the-…
    http://jonmulholland.posterous.com/why-is-poste…
    It's a great hub for your content.

  • http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/ Peter Evans-Greenwood

    Well put, and that's kind of what I'm thinking. I expect I'll just need to Posterous a go and see what happens.

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