{"id":2274,"date":"2012-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2274"},"modified":"2012-03-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"posterous-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/posterous-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Posterous Worries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=posterous\" title=\"John's World Wide Wall Display\">blogging about<\/a>, and with, posterous <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1920\" title=\"posterous a simple as blogging can be? - John's World Wide Wall Display\">since June 2008<\/a> it is a service I love. Early on I <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2049\" title=\"wei wu wei blogging - posterous - John's World Wide Wall Display\">compared it to the Flip camera<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Flip camera and posterous are both effortless technology, in education both could help by lowering the bar so that learners can concentrate on the learning and not get caught up in the tech.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We know what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/apr\/12\/cisco-flip-camera-smartphones\" title=\"Cisco to close Flip camera unit as smartphones swallow its market | Technology | guardian.co.uk\">happened<\/a> to the Flip camera after cisco bought it. I am now worried about what happens to posterous now <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.posterous.com\/big-news\" title=\"Posterous is Joining the Flock at Twitter - The Official Posterous Space\">twitter has bought it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Posterous explain a couple of things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption. We\u2019ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These seem slightly contradictory.<\/p>\n<p>There are 3 main ways I use posterous:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.posterous.com\/\">John&#8217;s posterous &#8211; I always did like sending email<\/a> which I uses for mobile blogging, now mostly iphone photos.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/enviablestuff.posterous.com\/\">enviable stuff<\/a> which I use for posting internet finds, posterous sends them on to this blog.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edutalk.info\/\">EDUtalk &#8211; Audio publishing by educators, using mobile devices<\/a>, this is of course organised in partnership with David <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/parslad\">@parslad<\/a> and is the one I am worrying about.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\tThe first two uses are pretty simple and could easily be done in other way, EDUtalk is different. We use several of posterous features to get things done:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We  allow anyone to post audio via email, this goes into the moderation queue. Posterous deals very well with spam, we do not see much at all. Although most other blogging systems have posting via email, I believe that most of them use a <em>secret<\/em> email address, I&#8217;ve not head of any that recommend sharing the email with the world.<\/li>\n<li>The API this allows us to semi automatically pull in posts from AudioBoo and iPadio to the moderation queue. The majority of audio comes from AudioBoo at the moment.<\/li>\n<li>Posting via web, this allows use to upload the Radio \u2039EDUtalk archive to the posterous stream, these are fairly large files, each an hour of audio.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\tMost of this could be done by other means (I think) but it is the ease with which posterous allows this to happen that I love. I can&#8217;t think of another service that would allow us to do this so easily.<\/p>\n<h3>EDUtalk<\/h3>\n<p>Has been going thorough a good spell. We had a great set of Boos for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/eyebeams\">Leon Cych, @eyebeams<\/a> from the Naace Conference: <a href=\"http:\/\/edutalk.info\/tag\/naace12\">naace12<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ianinsheffield\">Ian Guest @ianinsheffield<\/a> is continuing his great daily series on <a href=\"http:\/\/edutalk.info\/?search=IaninSheffield\" title=\"EDUtalk - Searching for 'IaninSheffield'\">Web tools for use in the classroom<\/a>. David and I have been enjoying the live Radio EDUtalk broadcasting (<a href=\"http:\/\/edutalk.info\/tag\/radioedutalk\">Radio Archive<\/a>) and have managed a variety of show types.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The last thing I want to be thinking about is a some sort of sealing wax and string posterous substitute but I am starting to keep my eyes open and am looking for suggestions?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging about, and with, posterous since June 2008 it is a service I love. Early on I compared it to the Flip camera: The Flip camera and posterous are both effortless technology, in education both could help by lowering the bar so that learners can concentrate on the learning and not get caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,95,57],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"tag-edutalk","8":"tag-posterous","9":"tag-radioedutalk","10":"kind-","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-AG","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}