Once in a while comes a service so useful that it changes the way you do things drastically.
Posterous has to be one such service. Right from the ultra easy signup procedure to the basic concept on which the service is built.
Posterous lets you blog,
tweet,
friendfeed,
facebook and interact with many other sites using simply your mail account. Now that makes things so simple. True, there are other services like tumblr which let you post online using a mail. But posterous ensures that you do that much more easily. No need to remember those cryptic email addresses. All you need to do is, to mail
post@posterous.com. How easy can it get? which means that you needn't even register at posterous. Start posting those blog posts, photos, videos, stories, news and anything you care about just by sending a simple email.
It even allows you to post to more than one site at the same time, just a single site or to all the sites at once. Now that makes life a lot more easier. My blogging engine now rests inside my email client!
Check out more about it
here!
And yes, this post was mailed to posterous…
Posted via email from thunderror’s posterous
I have this thing against many blogs which primarily run only on the strength of forwards which they receive. It could also be of the fact that I have always been away from the habit of forwarding these mails (Fwd: fwd: fwd: 10 facts u didnt know about life, Fwd: fwd: read this….you’ll die laughing, Fwd: fwd: very interesting….don’t miss and many many more) Another plausible explanation could be that these mails arise from the blogs that created them or is it the other way after all. I guess it is the old chicken and egg conundrum…I really despise people at office forwarding such useless information to each other. If you are really interested in sharing language
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Share a link to the original author’s blog/page
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Write something original of your own (and please do prevent it from becoming a forward by saying so)
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Or best of all, blog
Forwarding mails is a way of life for many people who spent much of their office time doing it. I am not trying to be the most proper employee in the world, but then do spare a thought for the office network which has to carry all the clutter (the 1000s of photographs of cute teddybears, babies and what not). Since I am complaining about something anyway; I would rather advertise what I would recommend…Blog about something and send the person whom you want, a link (imagine the bandwidth saved – even if you forget the cost element involved)
Great. Now blogger has been blocked in office. Just in time that I switched a bit of my blogging to wordpress. Now I can’t blog till I get back home from Hyderabad; I guess this is what pushes people to send forwards. Well, then it wasn’t entirely useless that I spent so much time doing this transfer and setting up my items on wordpress and besides wordpress is good as well.
I started my own blog at the SAP network, but right now my posts are pending moderation which should happen in a few days (after all, the SAP network doesn’t let anyone blog just like that) It should be enough to satisfy my poor technological soul I guess till I get back home.
Updated: 0440 hrs 14th march 2007. My first post on the SAP network got approved and it is now an official blog. Since I cannot blog through blogger; I update via a feed to this blog.
