Posterous – The Busy Student Blog
A lot of people wonder how I can be a student, work, have a social life, and run a blog all at the same time. Well first, you take out the social life. After that, there should be some time to spare (another good idea is to use your school papers as blog entries). However, I’ve recently discovered a place that will allow you busy blogger-to-be’s to maintain a cool, simple blog full of pictures, text, and even audio.
Enter Posterous.
With Posterous, you can make a blog within seconds. It is a relatively new site and goes under the same platform of ‘microbloggin’ as tumblr, a site that claims you can have an account and a (empty) blog up and running in mere seconds. But in my experience, posterous has been even simpler. All you need is an email address and you can make a post in 3 easy steps:
1. Compose a new email to post@posterous.com
2. Your blog title will be your email title.
3. Type up your blog in your email and press send.
Where was the log in? the domain name picking? the mother’s maiden name? You can choose to customize all that after, if you wish. The exciting part though, is uploading pictures and mp3s. Posterous has a beautiful system setup where it recognizes your email attachments as a picture or mp3 and adjusts the blog accordingly without any coding. If you are uploading a bunch of pictures, it automatically creates an album.
Furthermore, you can connect your posterous to other social platforms including twitter, tumblr, flickr, your own blog, be it wordpress, blogger, livejournal, movable type, xanga, and more. So when you update one, you update all. Or, you could choose to only update say ‘flickr’ by emailing flickr@posterous.com or even flickr+twitter@posterous.com which would bring your posterous blog to just your flickr and twitter. Not too shabby for old fashioned web 1.0 email. In my posterous, I’ve mainly focused on the randoms that happen throughout the day and I’ve also tried all the different file formats, being very pleased with the results. One thing I would like to see in the future is video support. Sure, it’d be rough on your email capacities, but it’s definitely the trouble.
EDIT: I stand corrected, video is possible on posterous.
If you’re a busy student or have a full time job, Posterous is perfect for you just to drop a line on cool stuff that’s happened through out the day. Leave a comment with your posterous address if you’ve “registered” and I’ll check it out.
Here’s mine:
