Hi all
just found this
http://posterous.com and thought that i'd send it on. It's an absurdly easy blogging platform - all you do is send a mail to
post@posterous.com and you've posted a blog. The subject is the title and the body text is the body text. Sorted.
And if you attach a picture, that gets featured too. Also, the tags in the subject line are added as tags to my blog.
I've cc'd this mail to my posterous address, so we'll see if it works that way (i'll put the link to the post into the tmdigit twitter feed), but one i tried earlier is here
http://ruby-mfsym.posterous.com/ (all my posts, including the one in this email - if it works - are here
http://rubyq.posterous.com/). Please don't reply all to this mail, in case it does post a blog (it shouldn't, but... in case).
Not exactly sure when and how it can be used yet, but the idea of an email-to-published article service will certainly be useful with some types of campaign - for example, if people are submitting entries to a competition via email, once approved, it could be forwarded to posterous and then we have published it.
Also, once you have set up an account, you can allow various email addresses to post to a single account: so, for example, we could create a tmdigi account with all of your addresses, and if you had some coverage or found something cool that you wanted to share, then it's a more permanent record than twitter posts. There is an overlap with FriendFeed but we'll look at that later.
Anyway, just a little experiment, but potentially a pretty cool tool for us to use at some point...
Ruby
