Too many projects, too little time

I set up a posterous blog. Even though I use my own blog and facebook/twitter.

Why ?

1. FB is more like a realtime social thing, and past updates are very difficult to access. Twitter is for more uncensored chatter without the concern of spamming all my FB friends.

2. Conventional blog is good for well thought out and/or usually lengthy articles. It is also not too easy to update on the go, nor is it suitable for small posts.

3. Tumblr is well designed, but posterous is well engineered and more powerful.

4. Posterous can be used like a mini blog tool complete with pictures or videos, and it can autopost to FB, twitter and more with fine grained control via email. It makes sense to autopost from posterous to FB and twitter but not vice versa, since I might post stuff directly on those that is too casual to archive.

5. A posterous widget can be kept in my primary blog so all my content would be in one place.

6. The PicPosterous app on the iPhone seems to make it much easier to associate multiple pictures on a single post. And the pictures can be taken over a period of time and added to the post.

Facebook sucks in giving access to past updates and photos in a good way. I could find a way to download past statuses as a csv, but it has a very buggy format: http://www.socialarchivist.com/2009/08/20/exporting-all-your-old-facebook-statuses/

I wanted to recreate my cross country motorcycle trip updates in posterous but each post must have a title and body. My updates being one or two sentences I decided to put them together in this blog as one post.

Update: Just got Priti moved from her personal blog to posterous. She is reluctant to maintain a serious blog, but updates facebook with text/snaps often so this is probably the best arrangement for her. Besides all old content is still on her blogspot site, so it made the migration a one-click task. Double win.

Update (27-Feb): At this time there is no way to add more photos in a single post (in gallery style), unless you have the PicPosterous app on the iPhone and create your post using that. You also have to keep the gallery/album in the app as long as you want to add more photos in that post.