The more I continue to experiment with Posterous the more incredibly impressed I am with the power and depth of its functionality and ease of use of its toolset. Not only does it enable you to set up a suite of autopost publication points, which you can call upon to direct your Posterous posts to a variety of additional sites and services, it also supports digital media formats and file attachments.For example, the audio clip embedded in this post was recorded on my mobile phone using the native voice memo option, and then included as a file attachment in an email I sent to blog@posterous.com. The body of the email became the text of the blog post and the email subject became the post header.
While I was sitting at my desk at the time the audio recording and subsequent email composition took place, it could quite easily have occurred anywhere – and yet the result is virtually as good as what I could have done on a desktop computer.
Considering the components involved in the equation – a email account, a mobile phone with internet access, and a free blog, I’d say that’s a pretty incredible outcome that we educators should be examining far more closely than we are in reality.
Posterous is a brilliant tool. It is an excellent medium for establishing and publishing a podcast without the need to concern oneself with FTP and server access details. Simply email the audio file to the dedicated Posterous account.
I wish Voice Memo on the iPhone would not limit the file size that one can email. I look forward to the day when Posterous will allow you to create a vodcast capable of subscription in a tool like iTunes. Great post Mike. Cheers, John.
@John Larkin: Thanks John
One other thing I want to test is what happens when you send an MP3 attachment and have that autoposted to another blog. In the above post, for example, the audio player wasn’t embedded here (whereas it was on Posterous) – however my phone records to WAV by default, and not MP3. So it’s possible that it’s the difference in file format that’s responsible for this omission.
I also wish there was a way to designate a category on the destination blogs – or even tags as well – by default everything is listed as uncategorised. Still it’s not really that crucial ultimately