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No, really.

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Move alone, nothing to see.
 
What? You’re still here? Oh, ok then.
 
I quite like Posterous’
email-to-blogging-everywhere system, but haven’t previously been able
to work out how it’s tagging system works from within an email. Now,
thanks to this post, I know how to do it. And what’s more, the tags *should*
auto-convert straight into Wordpress categories then it propagates the
post out there too.
 
Which is nice.

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Oh, the joys of the Internet. We’re living in a golden age where
there’s no shortage of tools to do pretty much anything online, from
posting blogs to uploading movies to making blogs about posting movies
about blogs to…….
 
Well, anything really.
 
With Twitter (I’m here -
drop by and say hi!) as the glue which holds everything together like
a central sticky gluey hub of awesomeness, the name of the game is
content proliferation with your words and images being pulled from one
service to another as your wishes dictate.
 
For example, it’s a simple enough matter to pull a YouTube video into
a blog post. More useful still, you could have your blog auto-update
your Twitter account via Twitter Feed (or automagically, if your blogging platform supports it),
That Twitter feed can then trigger a change in your Facebook status,
meaning your blogpost isn’t just “out there” waiting for Google to
find it or your stalwart band of RSS followers (hi, fans!) to pick it
up - it’s out there on Twitter, Facebook and all of the other
fantastic sites which pick those up, and the circle continues.
As circles are wont to do.
 
Other services take this propagation paradigm further still, this Posterous and Twitblogs leading the pack for
innovation. If there’s ever two site which need to get in bed
together, it’s these folks.
 
With Posterous, I can write a blogpost in an email client
(fact: I’m doing it right now) meaning you can post from anything you
can send an email - no dedicated client or browser needed. And you
have access to all of the functionality your mail client offers, from
saving drafts to spell-checking. The content is divorced from the
delivery mechanism - a true platform-neutral blogging engine.
Brilliant.
 
But that’s not all - Posterous takes content proliferation and runs
with it, cross-posting your posts to twitter, another blog, Facebook
or wherever. This means you can email….. well, pretty much anything,
so almost any site, anywhere, all through Posterous.
 
There’s still a few things I need to work out with Posterous, such as
setting the tags in a post, and work out how to get it to cross-post
into Wordpress into a certain Category (is this possible, I wonder),
but it’s also got some of the best embedding tech I’ve seen with
attached photos automatically turning into an image gallery, and
uploaded movies displayed in an embedded player. Nice.
 
Twitblogs on the other hand is a raw, straight-to-twitter blog system
that relies on Twitter to push the content to other systems. The
emphasis here is on allowing folks to use their twitter username and
password and no additional signup required. It’s a blog overlay that
allows more than 140 character posts with twitter being fed the title
and link. Simple, clever.
 
The key is what to use all of this wonderful newtech for.
 
If, like me, you already have a well-established blog then why use
Posterous or Twitblogs at all? In my case, In a word: segregation.
 
For example, I plan to use my Posterous account for tech posts. These will feed into all of the
other sites too as well as hit my twitterstream. Twitblogs
I’ll reserve for more opinion style posts that will drop directly into
Twitter but go nowhere else. That’s the off-my-chest stuff that
doesn’t need to clutter up the rest of my blogspace.
 
Sorted!

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Let’s see how Posterous handles a simple DAZ Studio animation, shall
we? Posted from gmail, wmv file attached.

(1179 KB)
Watch on posterous

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Oh yeh!
 
Testing Posterous’ mail-to-blog featurette. Don’t mind me. Passing through.
 
Posterous: The more I use it, the more I like it. Neat!

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Testing ping.fm.