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07 Oct 09

How to do almost anything with Posterous

"Use it to post anything almost anywhere

Beyond its easy blogging features, Posterous’ big selling point is that it can share anything via email to a wide range of services. Setting up the services you want to post to is a simple case of entering appropriate details on the Autopost page. Then, by simply sending a photo (for example) to post@posterous.com, or selecting it from a webpage via the Bookmarklet, it could be sent to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and FriendFeed simultaneously, as well as to your Posterous blog. Any tags you added to your post would be picked up by services like Flickr too.

With Autopost to Twitter enabled, it’s easy to use Posterous as an alternative to Twitpic. Many desktop Twitter clients, including Tweetie and Seesmic Desktop, support posting images via Posterous with the added benefit of them going wherever else you’re set up to autopost to.

Of course, sometimes you might only want to post something to one service instead of many. An video might be worth tweeting about but you might not want it on your Youtube account. To handle this, the Bookmarklet has the option to exclude services, while you can specify services you wish to post to via email using different email addresses.

To only post to Twitter, you’d use twitter@posterous.com, for example. To send to a number, but not all, of your services you can use the format twitter+youtube+vimeo@posterous.com to just send to those services. If you have a number of similar accounts, but only want to post to one, that’s covered too. If you have three different blogs but only want to post a picture of a swan to the one called ‘Birdwatching’, you could do that by emailing #birdwatching@posterous.com

To send the picture to only the Birdwatching blog and your Flickr account, you’d use flickr+#birdwatching@posterous.com
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03 Jun 08

The Cabo Blog - What's Happening in Cabo San Lucas

    • The Cabo Blog is like a journal of notes about Cabo San Lucas Mexico. From our blog, you'll learn:


      • What's new in Cabo.
      • Adventures and activities not to be missed.
      • Best restaurants.
      • Top luxury hotels
      • Special travel and hotel deals.
      • Notification when a new issue of our ezine has been published.
      • Much, much more.

MyBlogLog

  • MyBlogLog is all about tracking which of your blog's outgoing links are making readers click; in the simplest, most non-intrusive way possible - helaine on 2007-01-26
27 Jan 08

Kevin Kelly -- True Films

  • I present here the best general interest true films I've found. I define true films as documentaries, educational films, instructional how-to's, and what the British call factuals - a non-fiction visual account. The very best of these non-fiction films are as entertaining as the best of Hollywood blockbusters.
    In contrast to the fiction that most movies are, true films offer authentic plot twists, real characters, and truth stranger than fiction. They aim to both entertain and to inform - a powerful combo. It is no puzzle that true films are enjoying an expanding audience and rising prestige.






    As dogged as I have been in tracking down great true films, I have seen only a fraction of the estimated 40,000 that have been made. So I am ready for more. However I will only list true films and documentaries that are available as VHS tape or DVDs at consumer prices. In other words, films that are easy for most people to see upon request. I won't include films that are only shown in theaters, or available via high=priced rentals, or simply out of print.






    If you know of an available amazing true film that I've missed please recommend it to me.

Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools

  • Cool tools really work. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and others like it. Items can be either old or new as long as they are wonderful. We only post things we like and ignore the rest. Suggestions for tools much better than what is recommended here are always wanted.
18 Jan 08

Web yields deadly tricks for crime writers - Yahoo! News


  • Web-based forums like www.crimespace.ning.com and the Crime
    Writers Association www.thecwa.co.uk have flourished, bringing
    together writers and fans around the world.



    Authors I spoke with for this column rated among their
    favorites the crime fiction sites "Confessions of an
    Idiosyncratic Mind" at www.sarahweinman.com,
    www.thrillerwriters.org and www.crimespot.net.



    Seasoned or aspiring writers also track blogs run by police
    officers where they can read tales and learn jargon --
    something that was not possible a few years back.



    Child said one of the great benefits of tapping into the
    right police blog site is that writers can learn about tension
    between departments, staff and bosses, personal concerns and
    how they balance the "banal with the extraordinary."

09 Jan 08

Entertainment Technology Center

  • ETC@USC is a...

    consortium funded by the major content, technology, CE and service companies. Our goal is to understand next-gen consumers and explore new opportunities for reaching them with digital content. Find out about the

07 Jul 07

55 Essential Articles Every Serious Blogger Should Read | Entrepreneurial Blog of Matt Huggins

  • After blogging for some time now, I’ve encountered countless articles that have truly helped to refine many aspects of my blog. This includes the visual structure, layout and types of advertising and affiliate programs utilized, plug-ins implemented for ease of use, search engine optimization and overall productivity, and much more.


    Many of these articles would have been helpful before starting my own blog, but I also doubt that I would have been successful in putting most of these tips to use right away. Like me, I’m sure many of you are always looking for ways to improve your blogs. And since blogs are constantly growing and changing, it’s always a good time to do whatever you can to make your blog the very best.


    With that said, here are 55 essential articles I’ve come across that have positively influenced my blog decision-making and will undoubtedly help you too. I’ve also included a select few of my own past articles that are of relevance in order to “pay it forward.”

25 Jun 07

The Happiness Project

  • 'm working on a book, THE HAPPINESS PROJECT--a memoir about the year I spent test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study I could find, whether from Aristotle or St. Therese or Martin Seligman or Oprah.

    THE HAPPINESS PROJECT will gather these rules for living and report on what works and what doesn’t. On this daily blog, I recount some of my adventures and insights as I grapple with the challenge of being happier.

Google Webmaster Tools

  • Our suite of webmaster tools provides you with a free and easy way to make your site more Google-friendly. They can show you Google’s view of your site, help you diagnose problems, and let you share info with us to help improve your site’s visibility.

TED Blog

  • The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference is an annual event where leading thinkers and doers gather for inspiration. (More at TED.com) The TEDBlog covers the same ground, on a rather more frequent basis.
28 Mar 07

Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well | Copyblogger

  • 1. Use short sentences.


    Hemingway was famous for a terse minimalist style of writing that dispensed with flowery adjectives and got straight to the point. In short, Hemingway wrote with simple genius.


    Perhaps his finest demonstration of short sentence prowess was when he was challenged to tell an entire story in only 6 words:


    For sale: baby shoes, never used.

27 Feb 07

Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center - Micro Persuasion

    • in recent weeks I have started using Gmail as much more than an email host. With its gobs of storage, speed and tremendous search/tagging capabilities, you can transform it into a personal nerve center that's available from any computer or mobile device. When you tap into this power and combine Gmail with some other tools, it is perhaps the most essential site ever developed. Most of the following life hacks have not been documented.



      This series has several parts...



      • How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar)
      • How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter)
      • How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo Alerts)
      • How to manage Calendar and To-Dos in Gmail (Gmail + Backpack + GCal +  GTalk + iMified)
      • How to blog from Gmail (Gmail + Wordpress/TypePad/Blogger + IMified)
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