Pleased with Posterous!
A little over a week ago, I decided to give Posterous a second try.
I am glad I did! Posterous is simply the best app (it's a site, but it feels like an app) I've used for posting to Desirable Roasted Coffee, my Facebook page and my Twitter account (or a combination of any of the three).
Why do I like it so much? In no particular order:
1) I can reach all my readers. My Twitter followers (850 or so), my FB connections (250 or so) and my RSS subscribers (loads and bunches last time I looked) overlap, but not completely. Posterous lets me reach everyone -- or a subset -- with one post.
2) Post directly from a site. The "Share on Posterous" sits conveniently in my browser toolbar. When I run across a blog post or website I want to comment on, one click opens up a draft Posterous post. I can edit that, add a photo, embed a video, add my comments, hit "post" and it's published.
3) Post from web, email or smartphone. It's so easy to post from the phone that I sometimes don't bother to walk the 50 steps back to my desk to post from there.
4) Utter simplicity. If you publish from the desktop, via the web, as I am now, you can add all the formatting, font colors, blockquotes, etc, you are used to on any blog platform. But you could just post from email.. or your phone.... and there are no tricky bits, no coding... just write and shoot.
What does it lack? It won't let you tag or assign categories to posts (you'll have to edit those in from, say, Live Writer, later). While it publishes the full post both to your Posterous blog and your regular blog, it posts only the title to Facebook -- it would be nice if it also published the first couple of sentences. But these are minor shortcomings.
Yep. Color me pleased with Posterous.
