Posterous!!
I use Tumblr currently (tacomanator.tumblr.com) for some of my shallow-blogging needs, but what the heck, Posterous has been floating around the web for a while now so perhaps it's time to give it a try too. Posterous and Tumblr both have an email based blogging interface, so I created an email group with both addresses, and future posts will be mirrored on each (Posterous has a feature to make this even easier called Autopost, but I'll stick with this method for the moment). This will give me a chance to build up some posts on Posterous that I can compare, apples-to-apples, to Tumblr.
Conspicuously missing from Posterous is customization features, which is, of course, good and bad. It's good because it's one less thing to think about, and one less thing to distract you from focusing on content. It's bad because people seem to really enjoy customizing (there's no shortage of evidence for that!). I can't help but wonder how the current state will last. I won't be surprised if some customization features do creep into the application sooner or later.
Some notable features of Posterous are:
- Autoposting (automatically forwards your Posterous posts to your other accounts, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr (gasp!), Wordpress, and so on)
- Bookmarklet for easy posting
- Private posts (posts only for those who know the URL)
- Custom domain name
- Automatic image galleries
- The list goes on..
I setup Autopost to Twitter (twitter.com/tacomanator) before posting this, so a link to this post should automatically appear on my twitter account as well.
Well then, let's not delay any longer shall we?
