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Web site of the week: Posterous blog site far from preposterous
Posted Online: Nov. 06, 2009, 4:43 pm
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There are some amazing blogging platforms out there that allow users to share their thoughts on the Internet. Few, however, can match the simple elegance of Posterous (http://posterous.com/). Posting an entry to your Posterous blog couldn't be easier. Just send an e-mail to post@posterous.com. That's it! The subject line becomes the blog post's headline, and e-mail text becomes the body of the blog post. There are no Web forms to fill out nor content management systems to navigate, just an e-mail message. But say you have a photo that goes along with your blog entry. What do you do then? Attach it to your e-mail note -- attach several photos, if you'd like. Posterous takes care of the rest, not only posting the images to your blog, but also sizing them and creating an image gallery for you. In fact, Posterous can handle most anything you throw at it -- mp3 files, PDFs, Word documents and more. It can even handle video, transcoding it for you so that it's viewable on a Web page (in a Flash wrapper a la YouTube), even creating a link so the file also is viewable on the iPhone (which doesn't play Flash videos). Posterous is not only easy to use but ties in with the other Internet services you may already be using. You can use Posterous to update your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts, as well as stream images from Flickr. It even works with other blogging platforms such as Blogger, Wordpress and Typepad. With it's flexibility, Posterous can be used however you see fit. It supports multiple accounts and even multiple contributors. You can set password protections on your Posterous site if want your blog to be private. All of this for free! Effortless to use, and yet so powerful -- Posterous might change the way you use the Internet. 
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