Road Testing Posterous
Posted by Alex on 28 May, 2009 in My Stream | 0 comments
I tried posterous a couple of months back after hearing it mentioned on the net@night podcast and thought it seemed very impressive. I love the fact that you can email your blog posts with minimal effort, and even include photos and media and have it seamlessly embedded. But it was a solution waiting for a problem, I didn’t know quite what to use it for. I already have a blog at http://alexbowyer.blogspot.com/ .
But then I met Werner Vogels and he told me about http://werner.ly/, his posterous site which he uses for things that don’t quite fit on Twitter or on his blog – and I was inspired to do something similar myself. I realised that the time it takes for me to write a blog post properly and add photos, links etc, using the Blogger interface, has become something of a barrier to my blogging. I’m typically only getting one or two posts a month out as a result. Part of that is that I use it somewhat for therapeutic writing, and part of it is that I want every post to be “as good as it can be” (my perfectionist streak coming through).
And at the same time, at the other end of the spectrum, I manage to update my Twitter status several times a day. When you have to fit something into 140 text only characters, there is much less barrier to entry. But I know that there are plenty of things I’ve wanted to share and haven’t – maybe because I wanted to plan them out and make them something more complete, or maybe because they needed images or media to do them justice.
So I’m hoping that this posterous blog will be the perfect thing to plug the gap. I’m going to impose a limit of 500 words and try and blog here more often than I do on Blogger. You can expect the content here to be a little less polished, but hopefully a little more frequent and certainly more images, clips, etc. I am not sure yet if I am going to blog some or all of these posts to Blogger too.. perhaps if they relate to one of my categories. Will see how it goes with that. Let me know what you think. Thanks for reading!
I was just testing the facilities of posterous and I uploaded a picture and some music (Soundcheck Song by Hera). I’ll leave them in for you to enjoy …
