I signed up for a new service today called Posterous. What is Posterous well it’s a mobile blogging platform. Posterous operates mainly through email. I have it setup to work with my Sidekick email. You pretty much just post. You can write whatever you want and attach a variety of files. From pictures to audio, word docs to pdf’s. There is no support for movies (yet?) but it does convert youtube links into youtube players.
I think the service is great and have been playing with it all day. You can check it out @ http://jayfarmington.posterous.com and maybe get coaxed to sign up. The truth is this is another web service that I will use for a week, maybe less and then forget about. Yes it does offer the ability to update Flickr and Twitter but I can do that from my cell phone without Posterous. It’s not that the service isn’t great, it is. The design of the website is flawless but do I need another social media/social network to talk about what I’m doing?
I guess Posterous falls in between Slackerstyle and Twitter. Everyone knows to follow my Twitter as I update regularly but at the same time what if I want to write more? What if I want to talk about me? Even then do I need a “side blog” to talk about me? I own this website… I can talk about myself all I want.
Anyway, give it a chance check out http://www.posterous.com and see if you fit in. If not, well I’ll understand.
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