Posterous Is Blogging For Everybody Else

Running a real blog is a lot of work. Posts take time. Of course, anybody can start a blog and that is the beauty of the platform. Wordpress is the absolute easiest web application to install - EVER - and you can even use one of the many free hosted options if you won’t want to bother with that.

But, face it. Email is what everybody gets. People who don’t even know what a blog is understand email. Everybody understands email.

Connect the dots and you have Posterous. Posterous is a little hosted blog service where you just email in your posts. Registering for the service means sending them an email. So simple it throws you off at first.

I set up a little blog at Posterous. I sent them an email from my Gmail account. I got a reply back saying the site was set up. Easy. Of course, the name they chose for my site was rather cryptic, so I clicked the link, went to the website, set up a real username and password, then I was able to actually modify my profile as usual.

My new mini-blog? David Risley’s Posterior on Posterous.

Eehh…it will never be remembered but I thought it was funny.

So, yeah, this is on a free, hosted sub-domain site. You can send in a photo and it will go into your post. You can send in an MP3 file and it will post. Any device which you can email from will allow you to post to your blog.

Family members who haven’t the first clue how to blog can now easily share things with everybody else. If they can email you a picture of the baby, then can blog it.

Oh, and FriendFeeders, you can help Posterous get listed as a service on FriendFeed. Of course, you can still set yourself up with FriendFeed by simply adding your Posterous RSS feed as a blog to FriendFeed. Easy enough.

I’m digging it. As a pro blogger myself, I’m not sure I would use Posterous all the time. I have a LOT of avenues for content distribution as it is. But, we shall see. Perhaps I’ll find a use for it. And the fact that it pipes into FriendFeed is nice. Kinda makes it a little like a Tumblr blog where you can post items too long for Twitter, but too short for a blog post.

For the non technically inclined, though, Posterous makes it dead easy to have a blog. Now there are no excuses.

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