How I Will Be Using Posterous
I found Posterous about a week ago, and had been doing various things to test the service. Finally, last night, I decided to jump in head first and linked up my blog, Twitter, and other sites. But this still begged the question: Do I need another blog? I admit that there was a honeymoon period initially. When I first discovered Posterous, I was delighted by the simple design and the way I could easily post to other services, not to mention the so-simple-it's-practically-nonexistent process for uploading videos, pictures and other files. But, at the end of the day, all of the simplicity and utility in the world doesn't mean anything if there isn't a good use for it.
I've been writing my main blog for a few years now, and though it lacked focus at first, it's eventually turned into a place for me to post memoir-type essays, reviews, and thoughts on current events and other issues. But lately every post has taken on the length and scope of an article, with much attention paid to detail. I usually spend about an hour on each post. But what if I want to type out just a paragraph or so to get a thought out there that's been bugging me? Here's where a mini-blog comes in. Posterous offers a simple way for me to expand slightly on the type of content I'd normally put in a Tweet or Facebook status update. Although some entries here will be cross-posted to the main blog (while many things will be posted there and not here), I find that this format allows me to be a bit more informal than I am comfortable being on the other site.
Beyond all of this is the fact that as my posts on my main blog have become longer, they have also become less frequent. The simplicity of Posterous will, I hope, encourage me to blog more often, and perhaps eventually follow up a number of projects (both online and off) that I've long thought of but have never taken the time to realize.
