How I learned to quit "blogging" and love Posterous
I guess the simplest answer would be that I'd lost my passion for "blogging".
Part of the problem was "writers block" which I fought and lost regularly - a condition that worsened with each passing day. To complicate matters, Twitter and later Facebook (when they copied Twitter) opened my eyes to the real-time ecosystem of micro-posts rather than the essay style blog posts I'd grown tired of. Plus, looked like my attention was fragmented across four or five social networking sites and I could no longer I keep track of which sites I had posted to and which ones I hadn't.
Enter Posterous
Posterous can be viewed as the "one ring to rule them all". It's the one site I create content on that can then be re-routed to all other channels seamlessly. To me they have taken the stress and hassle out of cross-platform content maintenance while letting you focus on content creation as you go through your daily life in real-time.
Still confused? Here are my five reasons for switching:
1. Seriously, I wasn't "blogging" and it was becoming more difficult to get back on the bandwagon.
2. Ease of use - email any type of content (text, pics, audio, video) - just anything to post@posterous.com and boom! it's published after formatting.
3. Multimedia - The future is in real-time user generated multimedia (pics, audio, video) creation. And the future has arrived with the iPhone 3GS. Now, Posterous makes it painfully simple to email the video / picture you take with your 3GS phone, formats it for you and posts it on your Posterous site within
seconds.
4. Cross-posting capability - This is killer. Posterous
allow you to automatically populate your twitter, facebook, friendfeed, youtube, flickr and blog so you don't have to worry about cross-posting it across these different channels.
5. Participation - they have facebook and twitter connect on posterous, so
your friends can leave a comment on your posterous site through their twitter / facebook feed. You can also choose to feed that status update or tweet back through those respective sites.
In its most simplest terms. It's easy creation of real-time multimedia creation that attracted me most to Posterous. Now, all I have to do is buy the iPhone 3GS.
