Your own personal Posterous [blogging]
One of the things on my “curiosity” to-do list has been to check out Posterous, a new blogging site that’s been getting a lot of attention and converts. Having spent a few minutes playing around with it, I’d heartily recommend it non-technies who want to get started with blogging. Personally, I have no interest in moving everything to a 3rd- party service preferring the control that comes from running my own software, but I like the ease of getting things into Posterous.
This set me on a bit of a search for replicating Posterous’ email-in functionality, which ultimately led to Postie [1], a WordPress plugin for that very purpose. After an easy install, I’m now posting to Geek Factor via email.
This email was composed in Mail.app and processed via Postie. We’ll see how it looks. One limitation of the Leopard version of Mail is the total lack of HTML composition, e.g. links. Hopefully that’s fixed with Snow Leopard.
[1] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postie/
Update: I expected Postie to strip the post category from the subject line, and the in-line image was just added as an attachment shown at the end, but otherwise it works great. There are special tags that can be inserted into the post to control image position, but I wanted to see what’d happen without them. The post’s tags specified in-line were set correctly and the tag directive was stripped from the post. Also, the previous post, a YouTube video, was emailed in as just the URL and Postie correctly created the embed tags.