{"id":1920,"date":"2008-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1920"},"modified":"2008-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"posterous-a-simple-as-blogging-can-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/posterous-a-simple-as-blogging-can-be\/","title":{"rendered":"posterous a simple as blogging can be?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

posterous<\/a> is a new blogging tool that takes simple to extremes. To post to posterous you just send an email to post@posterous.com<\/a> from any email account, the mail is posted and you get a reply. At that point you can set up a posterous page\/blog and then everything sent to posterous from the same email (you can add more) will go onto the posterous page. Mine is John’s posterous<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is really clever is how posterous deals with content.<\/p>\n

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Text becomes, well text, and image is posted as you would expect, but so is a image url). A series of images are turned into a mimi gallery. Powerpoint is passed over to Scribd<\/a> and presented on the posterous page with iPaper<\/a> as are pdfs. If you print a pdf frpm Safari on a mac and mail it to posterous, the pdf is displated via scribd and the links on the page are live (example<\/a>). Pasting an image, say a screenshot, into your email app puts it on the blog, as does pasting code from kwout: kwout example<\/a>. I managed to create 10 posts of all sorts without any problems, on a mac you can even Drag and Drop to Posterous via a simple Automator workflow<\/a>.
Youtube and other video service are embedded as are mp3s. <\/p>\n

posterous is just out the wrappers, but the developers really seem on the ball<\/a><\/p>\n

For education, I am thinking this is a really quick way to create a blog, a series of resources for learners (rss of course), a student portfolio etc. With 1 GB of space you could use it for podcasting much simpler than many other methods.<\/p>\n

posterous<\/a> blogging<\/a> rss<\/a> mail<\/a> podcasting<\/a>