Skip to main content

Posterous or Tumblr

I've been having a rummage at convenient ways to add content to my online presence. I had my blogs, my twitter account, my picasaweb account and others. Then I came across Tumblr and Posterous.

Both seemed to do very similar things but there were a number of things that made me decide to use Posterous.

First off, Tumblr is extremely clunky when using Icecat on my Zenwalk laptop. It's not a problem exclusive to Tumblr but any application that relies too much on Javascript, or too much of the wrong type of Javascript ends up this way on my laptop.

Secondly Posterous can cross-post to wherever I want. So it's going to my blogs, image repositores and Youtube account where appropriate. And Psterous will also reformat stuff to fit wherever it's being sent. This is a serious timesaver.

Thirdly Posterous seems much more 'natural' to use than Tumblr. I really struggled making head or tail of using Tumble. Some have commented that Posterous has been 'engineered' and Tumblr 'designed'. Given that I am an engineer then maybe that's what swayed me!

So I'll be posting a bit using Posterous to see how it works out and how much use it will be. I'd be interested in people's take on the Posterous/Tumblr debate so feel free to comment.

Comments

  1. Steve Hayes15 October 2010 at 13:26

    I've heard of Tumblr, but not Posterous, but I am

    ReplyDelete
  2. Chris Hall15 October 2010 at 13:34

    'I am' ?

    Did your connection drp or something?

    You can see my posterous at http://chrishall57.posterous.com/

    ReplyDelete
  3. jameshigham18 October 2010 at 20:41

    The main thing, Chris, is to post.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Steve Hayes20 October 2010 at 03:15

    Looks like Disqus lost some of my typing. I've heard of Tumblr, but not of Posterous, and I'm not sure what either of them do.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Chris Hall20 October 2010 at 03:54

    If you think of blogger or wp as blogging and twitter as micro-blogging then posterous and tumblr position themselves as something in-between. They both offer convenience in posting and formatting. And they do work exceptionally well in this manner. For posterous you add content by email or a web interface. It does all the formatting and including multimedia for you. So just send a link of a youtube video or even send your own video and it embeds it for you. With tumblr you can email, use the web or even phone it through and it will set up an audio post. I've also asked posterous to pull in the feed from this blog to recreate all the posts here, including comments which it has done.

    They also cross-post for you. So I have posterous sending any posts as a tweet, any video posts also upload to my youtube account and any images are loaded to my picasa account. They offer other platforms as well.

    Both posterous and tumblr offer less in the way of subsidiary content like the blogcatalog and mybloglog widgets although they do offer a links service.

    I've also renamed my posterous to thesignofthecross.posterous.com. It is tempting to just jump ship and go fully with posterous. We shall see, but as James says the main thing is to post.

    ReplyDelete
  6. sbiernacki26 October 2010 at 13:01

    Former Tumblr user here, but been using Posterous since its release. I love it. Can't really elaborate much

    ReplyDelete
  7. Chris Hall27 October 2010 at 01:08

    I'm beginning to love Posterous as well. It's just too easy to use.

    I've decided I don't like Tumblr, I just don't click with it.

    Thanks for the response

    Chris

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Spammers, trolls and blatantly offensive posts will be summarily deleted. My blog, my rules. Otherwise comment away!

Popular posts from this blog

Sound familiar?

Watching the BBC interview of Adele by Graham Norton tonight and Adele sang one of the new tracks off her forthcoming album. The track was called A Million Years Ago. Listening to it reminded me of a different song by someone else. You know where you almost recognise a tune but get lost with the words, yet it's the words which are the key! Eventually it came to me, El Shaddai by Michael Card, famously sung by Amy Grant. It's a song that I occasionally play during worship. Have a listen. What do you think?
Post a Comment
Read more

The Upper Rooms

We often think of the 'upper room' as being the place where Jesus and the Disciples held the Last Supper but the Bible has many more 'upper rooms'.
Post a Comment
Read more

The Archbishop and Wonga

Image via CrunchBase Have to say I was initially chuffed to see the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby laying down a challenge to Wonga and others of their ilk. The AoC communicated that he wanted to see the payday loan industry driven out of business by promoting the use of credit unions. The payday loan industry is involved in outright usury which is condemned by many faiths such as Islam and Christianity and others. Usury we can look upon as the lending of money at exorbitant rates of interest. But then I thought what was the AoC actually saying? He wanted to replace excessive usury with not so excessive usury. Is that what we should be aiming for? Plus the architects of our current austerity are backing the AoC! I would love to see all of the credit industry driven out of business but it will only be done by paying workers a decent wage, sharing in the profit of their labour and making capitalism history. At the end of the day this sort of initiative is just a...
3 comments
Read more