greywulf’s posterous

I have this blog. It's not used much, but I like it. I love the
simplicity of being able to blog-by-mail. I love that it auto-posts to
other sites, twitter, facebook and the rest. I love and want to
support the whole way that posterous works.

In short - I WANT to use it. But I've already got a blog. A good one,
at that. I'm happy with the spread of content, the number of visitors
it draws in and how it looks. It suits my needs. In the past I've
struggled with what to use this blog over here on posterous for. I've
thought about making it a techblog, but that takes up too much time
and is too high maintenance to act as a secondary blog. I could use it
to store snippets and links I like - the ephemera of netlife I want to
keep and share. Or I could do none of those and turn it into a
tutorial site, hosting my 3d render tutorials and more.

We'll see.

I WANT to use it. I WILL use it.

I just don't know what for yet.

Thoughts, thunking.

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View Lori's Gallery here: http://www.loriearley.com/gallery/
 
These are mine, rendered in DAZ Studio.

   

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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, with Posterous and Twitblogs leading the pack for innovation. If there's ever two sites 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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Oh, the joys of being silly in DAZ Studio.
 
Note to self: getting a decent gold texture is hard!

   

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Hot news topic today is the sad news that Morris Dancers could become
extinct within 20 years
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7812300.stm).
I know it's hard to believe that the world's most ineffectual martial
art has reached such desperate times, and the only possible course of
action is to take a look at what could possibly have caused this
tragedy.
 
Wikipedia lists six possible causes for extinction:
 
- Genetics and demographic phenomena
- Genetic pollution
- Habitat degradation
- Predation, competition, and disease
- Coextinction
- Global warming
 
(source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction)
 
Could it be that Morris Dancers are dying out because of disease or
pollution, or are they yet one more casualty of man-made Global
Warming? Have Morris Dancers been hunted beyond the point of no
return, and is there anything that the world community can do to turn
this around? Perhaps governmental pressure can be brought to bear on
Japanese Trawlermen to prevent them from killing this rarest of
creatures beyond the levels their economy needs. Surely local laws can
restrict hunting to a reasonable number of kills per season with
strict fines if inhumane traps are used.
 
Surely..... surely..... something should be done!

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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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And here's a handful of random renders too, to try out the gallery
feature. Yeh, I'm playing.

         

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

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