Posterous Makes Sharing Anything Drop-Dead Simple

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I'm a longtime user of both Tumblr, and Posterous. Posterous made it easy to multi-post to several blogs at once via email. This made it great for long form blog entries since I wasn't married to Blogger, LiveJournal, or WordPress. It also worked with emailed images and would post them to Flickr, and Facebook, but now Ping.fm does that trick, and supports more sites.

My social media/sharing/reposting policy is to use the site that brings me the content. So if I see something on Facebook, I'll reshare it on Facebook, and if I see something on Digg, I'll digg it. But when a site doesn't provide me any way to share it's content with my friends, it's been Tumblr's job to step in and pick up the slack. Tumblr lets you select individual images, videos, even blocks of text to post to your Tumblr. The video sharing only worked for YouTube, but allowed you to paste an embed code from anywhere, which I found to work well with just about any swf file. But there are formatting issues. Sometimes I can't compose a coherent caption to my Tumblr posts because the links don't work, or the quote source is ambiguous.

I'll give Posterous' new feature a fair shake. I don't really care what site my social sharing flak lives on anymore, just as long as it gets picked up by FriendFeed, and all the other aggregators, and gives me all the tools I need to capture content from all over the web and re-post it with my own comments.

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