Loving the simplicity of using Posterous for simple blogging
I've been working on my friend Josie's website and was looking for a simple solution for her to be able to post news, updates etc. without too much technical knowledge.
After looking around a loads of different blogging sites, software and stuff somewhere in between I stumbled upon Posterous. You can read all about it from their FAQ but it's simplicity really is a thing of beauty.
Simply send an email to a special email address and it will get posted automatically to the blog. Attached images and videos can automatically get converted and embedded, and it has a host of Autopost features which let you forward details of new items on to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr,...
Although the site does have an import feature from other blogs, the proprietary (read basic) code I'd written to manage the news on Josie's site before wasn't supported. However it was trivial to write a quick script to send the existing news items in individual emails to her Posterous and get it up and running in no time.
You can see the results for yourself and some of Josie's beautiful pictures at http://josiemccoy.posterous.com
Just because I can, I've also attached one of her recent pictures to this email
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