Jos Schuurmans on Posterous

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090814_Agile.mp3.MP3 (22835 KB)

The .mp3 version of my podcast conversation with Antti Tarvainen about
agile software projects through public tenders in Finland
 
(I'm sending this up from Google Mail, testing if this is a more
convenient way to post the audio file than through TypePad's blog
interface - see:
http://www.josschuurmans.com/2009/08/posterous-better-for-podcasting-than-typepad.html
)

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Testing the usability of posting blog entries by email, using Posterous and my Gmail account, from the Nokia N97 which arrived in the mail the other day.

 When I posted with Posterous and Gmail last time, a week or so ago, I wasn't happy because of the line breaks that Gmail made and which disrupt the text alignment on the blogs.

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Artem Marchenko's concern that my "crossposting" has been
"skyrocketing" (in the comments of this post:
http://www.josschuurmans.com/2009/07/figuring-out-the-cross-posting-process.html ),
has motivated me to re-think how I should share my shared reading feed
from Google Reader.
 
In recent weeks and until today, I have been routing my items from
Google Reader ( http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F18334020292741504131%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fbroadcast ),
via Yahoo! Pipes, noitfy.me, and Ping.fm, onto my blog at
www.josschuurmans.com, as well as to some other blogs, micro-blogs and
as status updates on various social media and social networking
services.
 
I have now decided to no longer post these shared reading items onto
my blogs, but only as micro-blog posts and status updates. I've done
this by changing the preferences for posting from notify.me to
Ping.fm. For the moment they will only route to Twitter, Jaiku, hi5,
FriendFeed, and identi.ca. I may add other services in the future
(Kaiku comes to mind).
 
www.josschuurmans.com remains to be my "main hub", or may main
Internet presence. From now on, the blog posts will contain mainly my
own original writing - for which, by the way, I am now testing
Posterous' posting via email.
 
My blog will also continue to include the daily links from Delicious.
This may change, dunno.
 
FriendFeed seems a good candidate to become the preferred service for
my aggregated feeds, aka "all my stuff" or my "lifestream". This may
include blog posts, delicious bookmarks, shared reading, disqus
comments, micro-blog posts and status updates.
 
At some point I may bring the "lifestream" feed into my blog, but as a
sidebar feature.

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This is not so easy. First, let's see which services I have activated
on Ping.fm:

 Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Identi.ca, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Blogger,
Plaxo Pulse, hi5, WordPress.com, TypePad.

 Now, which of these services can I reach straight from Posterous?

 Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Identi.ca, FriendFeed, Jaiku,
Blogger, WordPress.com, TypePad.

 Supported by Ping.fm but not by Posterous:
LinkedIn, Plaxo Pulse, hi5.

 You know what? I think I'm starting to get it. I will probably use
both Ping.fm and Posterous, depending on device and context.

 I will keep using Ping.fm, at least for now, to share my reading from
Google Reader http://GoogleReaderShared.josschuurmans.com

 There may be a better way, perhaps even routing my shared reading
through Posterous instead of Ping.fm. I'll have to look into that some
time.

 With Posterous I can update all my current blogs and micro-blog
services, except LinkedIn, Plaxo Pulse and hi5. So, for pure status
updates, Ping.fm is preferred. But for blog posts, Posterous offers
more.

 And perhaps there is a way to route status updates to LinkedIn, Plaxo
Pulse and hi5 via one of the services supported by Posterous (e.g.
Twitter?). We'll see.

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I set up Posterous yesterday, as it seems an attractive way to post
content via email and distribute it to multiple social media and
social networking services. This post is to test the email feature.
 
I also posted one entry on Posterous yesterday, pondering over
cross-posting via Ping.fm. I'll probably try to re-post that one onto
Typepad as well.
 
And after that I will need to re-think the whole cross-posting
process, I gather.
 
(I'm also testing the "end" tag to cut off my signature, see Posterous
FAQ at http://posterous.com/faq)

[UPDATE: Okay, that worked fine: http://www.josschuurmans.com/2009/07/testing-email-to-posterous-and-on-to-typepad.html]

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I'm very impressed with Posterous' FAQ: easy posting via emai; automatic conversion of links and embedding of multimedia formats; posting to other social media and social networking services; importing content from other blog platforms; domain mapping.

Makes me even consider to move away from Typepad as my "hub" blog platform.

Perhaps my biggest hesitation is the fact that I am currently using Ping.fm to post to multiple outlets. Some content I publish routes via notify.me and Ping.fm. So I will need to find out if Posterous can post to Ping.fm, or vice versa, or if Posterous can replace Ping.fm by supporting the same (relevant) services.

Okay, maybe one possible workaround is to let notify.me subscribe to an RSS feed from Posterous and then send it out through Ping.fm.

Anyway, I just tweeted this:

josschuurmans: I want @pingfm to post to @posterous and vice versa. Sensible? Possible? (http://twitter.com/josschuurmans/status/2435329325)

[UPDATE, 3 July 2009: Funny thing happened after that tweet. About five hours after I had posted it, I received a reply from Twhirl (!), saying: "@josschuurmans Give us 5 minutes. ;)" And another reply from Twhirl about an hour later, saying: "@josschuurmans Ok check now."

So, I'm not sure what's going on here. Perhaps the Twhirl people have implemented a feature that lets you post to Ping.fm (I just saw that Twhirl supports posting to Ping.fm but I don't know if it was there before yesterday). It would be pretty cool if they did that in response to my tweet. Dunno.

Still, that doesn't let Ping.fm post to Posterous, nor vice versa, right?

And another small complication is that Twhirl runs on Mac and Windows, but apparently not on Unbuntu.]

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