Posting to posterous

Simple way to start sharing your thoughts, inspirations and photos. If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world.

If you attach one photo (of any size, even direct from your camera!), it is resized by the posterous team to a web-friendly size and then posted. If you send more than one photo in the same message, they are automatically collated into a fantastic gallery of images. Each image can be enlarged in an on screen lightbox and the reader is then given the option to download the full size image or the whole gallery as a zip file. Great for sharing events and images with family and friends.

Another great feature is the simplicity with which embedded videos from websites can be uploaded and embedded into online players for YouTube, Google Video, Hulu, Omnisio, MixWit, Justin.TV, Fliggo, Vimeo, motionbox, TED Talks, Viddler, Dailymotion, Blip.tv, Revver, TeacherTube, GodTube, seesmic, and Brightcove…and probably many more soon! Simply email the URL to posterous and they do the rest…

Posterous.com also allows limited editing of your posts once published using a simple WYSIWYG editor and the user can also write posts directly in this editor and publish to Posterous ‘without’ having to email to Posterous
 

Managing posts is also simple and effective. I really like the simple way to monitor how many people have viewed a post, commented or added as a favorite. The ‘manage’ section also allows the user to edit or delete posts.

 

Things I like about posterous.com

• Simple to use
• Great way to get started with a blog
• Autoposting to twitter, facebook or other blogs by simply changing the email address to which you send your blog posting
• Subscribing to other posterous bloggers and seeing a great selection of short, humorous and colorful posts on a daily basis – simple to subscribe to other bloggers, review RSS feeds of your favorite blogs, add comments and ‘favorite’ those special posts
• Sense of positivity
• Great aesthetics
• Inspires me to post regular short posts for my family and friends

Things that frustrate me

• Adding video or pictures to an already published post – I submit a new post, copy and paste the generated html into the original post and then delete the ‘new post’
• Unable to add captions to individual photos

Favorite Posterous Bloggers of the moment include ReflectionsOf.Me, Garry, and Nicholas Patten. For a detailed and comprehensive FAQ list visit the posterous.com help section or visit the blog.