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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
Use it to work as a group in private
By setting your Posterous blog as Private and allowing colleagues to post to it, you can use it as a private working environment. Co-workers can use it to email in ideas, images, audio and v
"Digi-novel" combines book, movie and website by Reuters: Yahoo! Tech
Zuiker said people's attention span was becoming shorter and shorter and that it was important to give people more options on how they consumed entertainment and books.
"Every TV show in the next five, 10 years will have a comprehensive microsite or website that continue the experience beyond the one-hour television to keep engaging viewers 24/7," he said. "Just watching television for one specific hour a week ... that's not going to be a sustainable model going forward."
"I wanted to bring all the best in publishing, in a motion picture, in a website and converge all three into one experience," he said.
"And when the book finished and the bridges finished, I wanted the experience to continue online and in a social community."
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"Just doing one thing great is not going to sustain business," he said. "The future of business in terms of entertainment will have to be the convergence of different mediums. So we did that -- publishing, movies and a website."
He said he did not believe the digi-novel would ever replace traditional publishing, but said the business did need a shot in the arm. -
Zuiker said people's attention span was becoming shorter and shorter and that it was important to give people more options on how they consumed entertainment and books.
"Every TV show in the next five, 10 years will have a comprehensive microsite or website that continue the experience beyond the one-hour television to keep engaging viewers 24/7," he said. "Just watching television for one specific hour a week ... that's not going to be a sustainable model going forward."
"I wanted to bring all the best in publishing, in a motion picture, in a website and converge all three into one experience," he said.
"And when the book finished and the bridges finished, I wanted the experience to continue online and in a social community."
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Clay Shirky's Internet Writings
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My new book, Here Comes Everybody: The
Power of Organizing Without Organizations, is coming out
in February 2008, from Penguin Press. Here Comes
Everybody is about what happens when people are given the
tools to do things together, without needing traditional
organizational structures.
It's coming out first in the
US and the UK, and can be pre-ordered at booksellers
everywhere. (Later this year, there will be a Dutch, Portuguese,
Chinese and Korean translations.)
Along with the book, I
am launching a Here
Comes Everybody blog, designed to both chronicle and
extend the themes of the book. I'm delighted to finally have to book
out, and to be able to begin blogging about it. In addition, this site
collects many of my older writings, from which many of the themes of
the book arose.
Thanks, as always, for reading,
-clay
Web yields deadly tricks for crime writers - Yahoo! News
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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."
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
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What's good?
Searches Amazon, the Library of Congress and 45 other world libraries.
Show it or keep it private. Put your books on your blog too.
Get recommendations. Connect to people with all your obscure stuff.
Tag your books as on Del.icio.us and - helaine on 2007-01-26
25 Web Sites to Watch - Yahoo! News
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To keep you ahead of the curve, we've rounded up 25 innovative Web sites and services that are well worth watching. Some of them help you design your own personalized Web site mashups; others enable you to create video mixes, build wikis, share personal obsessions, and more.
ALA | Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher
- Tired of endless lists of Web search tools that give you no guidance as to which ones to use? Or that were last updated when Gophers were alive? I'm inviting you to look over my shoulder and use what I use every day for Web searching in an academic librar - helaine on 2007-01-26
- Great Books -
- Malaspina Great Books is a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are the living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distor - helaine on 2007-01-26
Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion.
- Please enter the award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between. - helaine on 2007-01-26
Answers.com - Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and much more
- "Answers.com is also a start toward a new search paradigm... real instant information, not just links to pages where that information may, or may not, be found. I urge you to try it." Walter Mossberg - helaine on 2007-01-26
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