Thank you for this post! Always good to have a clue or two when trying something new, and I'd like to give Posterous a whirl, so I've bookmarked this post for future reference.
Stuart Foster
· 5 months ago
Alright Daniel...I'm begrudgingly going over this. I'm going to be a wee bit scared and confused by it for the next few days though. Hopefully, the experiment will work out well.
greglinch
· 5 months ago
This looks like an interesting service, but I guess my big question is why should someone who uses WordPress, Facebook and Twitter plus related third-party plugins and apps use (or switch to) Posterous?
It's looks simple and easy to use, but I just don't see the unmet need it's fulfilling or drastic simplification (though I do see it syndicates to other services) to make it the next big thing.
I don't mean to be negative, I'm just curious and would like to hear more of your thoughts about why it's useful. I actually signed up to try it out.
Thanks!
Daniel_Honigman
· 5 months ago
I like the more visceral nature of Posterous. I'd feel bad creating a post that's simply a link to a story, along with two sentences. I feel like I'd have to choose between two options:
1. Shortening it to a Tweet, and not posting it on my blog. 2. Expanding my thoughts to more than two sentences, to make it a legitimate blog post.
Posterous is flexible enough to do both. For the quick hits, it can re-post them as a Tweet. For a blog post, it syndicates to all of your other networks.
This just makes sense to me.
Breanna Gaddie
· 5 months ago
I'm all about making things easier. It's so ironic that I just heard about this from a new media friend yesterday and now I've ran across your blog. I see Greg's point about how is it worth switching to if some of us already use Wordpress, FB, Twitter, etc. However, if you say that Posterous can live stream and syndicate everything, then maybe it will make life easier. Whatever it takes to make new livestreaming techniques to clean up our digital housekeeping may be worth it.
Daniel_Honigman
· 5 months ago
Thanks for the comment, Breanna. Who'd you hear about it from? Chris Graves?
Breanna Gaddie
· 5 months ago
Actually I have a google alert set for "web 2.0" and this article showed up.
Also, after exploring posterous, I emailed the support team, but maybe you know this. I know it has the ability to auto-update other channels or services, but I'm wondering if there's a way to get it to post on the page what I post elsewhere. For example, if I post something to Twitter, then it automattically post to Posterous page. If posterous can't do that, do you know of a service that can do that?
elizs
· 5 months ago
Breanna - you may already know this, but Tumblr offers this service. I have a couple friends who mainly use Tumblr as a way to archive their tweets.
Breanna Gaddie
· 5 months ago
No, I didn't know that about Tumblr. Thanks, I will sign up.
Does it just archive tweets, or can I get it to archive all my blog/socail media presence? (a daunting task i know)
elizs
· 5 months ago
So far, just Twitter is the easiest to archive on Tumblr. As far as archiving all your social media presence (or rather keeping it all in one place), have you tried Friendfeed? I have my digg, youtube, flickr, tumblr, and more hooked up to Friendfeed. Click on my name for this comment and it will go to my FF page so you can see what it looks like.
And as far as the original post, I'm still getting used to posterous. I like the plain design, and the ease of posting, but I still use Tumblr predominantly (but I HATE tumblarity).
Agent_Luke
· 5 months ago
Daniel,
It's nice to finally comment on your post - not sure why I haven't done it earlier. Anyhow, my marketing is all web related so I jump (or around) any new interesting peace - thanks, will try to check it out soon.
Daniel_Honigman
· 5 months ago
Seriously, Luke. What's up with that?
Could be an interesting way to present real estate information.
Agent_Luke
· 5 months ago
for sure - no doubt. me and you mate, we gotta get something goin here.
Ross Dunn
· 5 months ago
I like it, it has serious potential. BUT...
Posterous is going to have a hell of a branding problem with people not pronouncing their name correctly (although in their defence they shouldn't be having a problem) as evidenced by the video by Chicagoan @Outsanity - it isn't Post-Ear-E-Us (which sounds like a cousin of posterior but isn't an actual word) but Post-Er-Us.
Poor guys, it seems the incorrect pronunciation of their name has taken hold to the detriment of their brand... check out this search for "Posterious" on Google http://bit.ly/wUinl
I am thinking whoever owns www.Posterious.com is getting some darned decent traffic and can expect to be called soon by the Posterous team to have their domain bought LOL!
Aron Pilhofer
· 5 months ago
Hey Daniel.. I've looked at the site, read both posts and, frankly, I don't get it. I don't see what this does for me, except putting my content on YET another social media website.
I can see why someone who is actively maintaining, you know, nine different social media sites would think this is pretty cool and convenient. But what I'm missing is the "why should I care as a journalist" part.
Love to see you post on what you think this can do for a newsroom, or how newsrooms can use this to do something completely new and different, with some practical examples if there are any (or hypotheticals if not). I'd also love for you to show me the money. How does driving traffic to posterous.com help newspaper.com?
Anyway, not to be the turn in the punchbowl here, but I'm just not seeing the point.... (Full disclosure: I would have said the same about Twitter one year ago, so, things do change.)
Keep up the good work!
Robert Quigley
· 5 months ago
Aron, I'm noodling the same questions. I can imagine having a features writer who is covering a multi-day festival using it to tell a good narrative from the event. Same might work for a sports writer at a tournament. The pics, vids, audio, blog posts, etc. all in one place, in a stream.
As for the money, you can push content from Posterous to WordPress, though I don't know how that works since I haven't tried that yet. In theory, one could sell ads on that WordPress blog.
I'm not sure I see the point fully yet, either, though it is clever software (especially with easy e-mail posting).
Aron Pilhofer
· 5 months ago
I may have answered my own question (or maybe you did, and I just missed the link). Anyway, this kind of gets at it, but still feels a bit "schicky" to me.
tjunkie
· 5 months ago
I have been using posterous quite a lot these days and I think is a nice idea to be able to blog at one place and have it redirects to all my other social networking sites like twitter, facebook and flickr and even my own personal blog too. The only thing I'm concern now is my own personal blog which have all the image links pointing to posterous. What if one day the services is suspended? Then what...go and edit every single piece of entry in my personal blog to reattached all the lost images link again?
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It's looks simple and easy to use, but I just don't see the unmet need it's fulfilling or drastic simplification (though I do see it syndicates to other services) to make it the next big thing.
I don't mean to be negative, I'm just curious and would like to hear more of your thoughts about why it's useful. I actually signed up to try it out.
Thanks!
1. Shortening it to a Tweet, and not posting it on my blog.
2. Expanding my thoughts to more than two sentences, to make it a legitimate blog post.
Posterous is flexible enough to do both. For the quick hits, it can re-post them as a Tweet. For a blog post, it syndicates to all of your other networks.
This just makes sense to me.
Also, after exploring posterous, I emailed the support team, but maybe you know this. I know it has the ability to auto-update other channels or services, but I'm wondering if there's a way to get it to post on the page what I post elsewhere. For example, if I post something to Twitter, then it automattically post to Posterous page. If posterous can't do that, do you know of a service that can do that?
Does it just archive tweets, or can I get it to archive all my blog/socail media presence? (a daunting task i know)
And as far as the original post, I'm still getting used to posterous. I like the plain design, and the ease of posting, but I still use Tumblr predominantly (but I HATE tumblarity).
It's nice to finally comment on your post - not sure why I haven't done it earlier. Anyhow, my marketing is all web related so I jump (or around) any
new interesting peace - thanks, will try to check it out soon.
Could be an interesting way to present real estate information.
me and you mate, we gotta get something goin here.
Posterous is going to have a hell of a branding problem with people not pronouncing their name correctly (although in their defence they shouldn't be having a problem) as evidenced by the video by Chicagoan @Outsanity - it isn't Post-Ear-E-Us (which sounds like a cousin of posterior but isn't an actual word) but Post-Er-Us.
Poor guys, it seems the incorrect pronunciation of their name has taken hold to the detriment of their brand... check out this search for "Posterious" on Google http://bit.ly/wUinl
I am thinking whoever owns www.Posterious.com is getting some darned decent traffic and can expect to be called soon by the Posterous team to have their domain bought LOL!
I can see why someone who is actively maintaining, you know, nine different social media sites would think this is pretty cool and convenient. But what I'm missing is the "why should I care as a journalist" part.
Love to see you post on what you think this can do for a newsroom, or how newsrooms can use this to do something completely new and different, with some practical examples if there are any (or hypotheticals if not). I'd also love for you to show me the money. How does driving traffic to posterous.com help newspaper.com?
Anyway, not to be the turn in the punchbowl here, but I'm just not seeing the point.... (Full disclosure: I would have said the same about Twitter one year ago, so, things do change.)
Keep up the good work!
I'm noodling the same questions. I can imagine having a features writer who is covering a multi-day festival using it to tell a good narrative from the event. Same might work for a sports writer at a tournament. The pics, vids, audio, blog posts, etc. all in one place, in a stream.
As for the money, you can push content from Posterous to WordPress, though I don't know how that works since I haven't tried that yet. In theory, one could sell ads on that WordPress blog.
I'm not sure I see the point fully yet, either, though it is clever software (especially with easy e-mail posting).