{"id":8041,"date":"2009-04-21T08:10:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T07:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/posterous-micro-blogging-for-lazy-bloggers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:23:38","slug":"posterous-micro-blogging-for-lazy-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/posterous-micro-blogging-for-lazy-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Posterous: Micro-blogging for lazy bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/04\/posterous01.png\" alt=\"Posterous: Microblogging service for lazy bloggers\" align=\"left\" \/>Starting a blog is quite easy: you simply choose the platform (<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger..com\/\">Blogger<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\">LiveJournal<\/a>, for example), pick a title and start writing. You can blog about any topic you like, or use it as a kind of personal diary to express your inner thoughts and feelings \u2013 always bearing in mind that this is all publicly available, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But if you feel too lazy to write more than two paragraphs and don&#8217;t want all the hassle of having to create a user accounts, use an online editor and fiddle with weird codes every time you want to link to a photo or video you like, try Posterous instead. Posterous is a perfect example of micro-blogging, a variety of blogs <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/delete-your-blog-and-switch-to-microblogging\">we mentioned a while ago<\/a> whose main characteristic is simplicity. Rather than publishing long posts after a long research of several different sources, micro-blogging focuses on quick posts, almost like Twitter messages, only with multimedia support and no character limit.<\/p>\n<p>Among the dozen different micro-blogging services you can use, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.posterous.com\/\"><strong>Posterous<\/strong><\/a> stands out for its ease to use. First, you don&#8217;t need to create a user account. Second, you can publish posts by email. And last but not least, you can user a really handy bookmarklet to share photos, videos, online documents and much more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/04\/posterous02.jpg\" alt=\"Posterous: Microblogging service for lazy bloggers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, all you have to do to start using Posterous is: send your first post by email to <a href=\"mailto:post@posterous.com\">post@posterous.com<\/a>. The system will immediately reply to you with a temporary domain name and the link to your newly created posterous. You can then visit the website, protect it with a password, pick a subdomain and configure some settings.<\/p>\n<p>I liked Posterous for many reasons: it&#8217;s one of the easiest micro-blogging services I&#8217;ve ever seen (that bookmarklet is simply gorgeous!), it&#8217;s great to share stuff with family and friends (by creating a shared posterous with multiple editors) and can also be protected from prying eyes by marking it as private. So if you&#8217;ve always wanted all the advantages of having a blog, but without the hard work, don&#8217;t think it twice and create your posterous now! Meanwhile, you can always check <a href=\"http:\/\/softonic.posterous.com\/\">mine<\/a> out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a blog is quite easy: you simply choose the platform (WordPress, Blogger or LiveJournal, for example), pick a title and start writing. You can blog about any topic you like, or use it as a kind of personal diary to express your inner thoughts and feelings \u2013 always bearing in mind that this is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/posterous-micro-blogging-for-lazy-bloggers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Posterous: Micro-blogging for lazy bloggers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-8041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335588,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions\/335588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}