How do you use Posterous or Tumblr? Here’s how I do.

John Johnston — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:35:50 +0000

Today came the news that Posterous has grown by over 700 percent during the past year. As TechCrunch points out, Tumblr has been around for longer and is seeing around 23 million unique visitors a month, and Posterous (launched in June, 2008) is now seeing around 5.3 million a month.

The increased growth in Posterous over the past year seems to be in no small part due to its introduction of an iPhone app that allows you to post photos and thoughts. Even without the app, it’s easy enough to email content in from a mobile device, which is my preferred method if I’m mobile. It’s also easy to cross-post to other services such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and many others, even WordPress.

So, if you use either Tumblr or Posterous, how do you use them? I’ve found myself using Posterous on a increasingly regular basis lately. I’ve tried both these services over the years. Although I think it’s good, I gave up on my Tumblr account because I couldn’t really think of a decent use for it. I found that I already had more than enough to be going on with. I guess it just wasn’t the right time for me.

Having said that, later when I found out about Posterous and tried it, I found the fact that you can send images via email from a mobile device very handy. In addition to using it for posting various images and videos from my iPhone, I’ve also found myself using it for increasingly regular posts on various subjects I’m interested in that don’t fit the theme of this blog.

It’s really a way for me to discover and comment on additional themes and subjects I’m interested in, and to share them with others. Maybe some of these thoughts will turn into other more substantial projects later on, maybe not, but for now it seems an appropriate place to experiment. Also, sometimes the 140 character limit of Twitter is just not enough.

How about you? Do you use either Tumblr of Posterous, and in what way? Feel free to share your URL in comments.

What Have I Been Doing With My LIfe?

John Johnston — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:50:42 +0000

So I haven’t blogged here for about 2 months, (except for the previous posterous crosspost). I didn’t mean it to work out like that, it just did. Why?

As some of you may know, in late August I flew to New York on a work trip, which amongst other things included attending the Mashable Social Good Conference.

Anyway, it was a good trip but during the long-haul flight back I developed deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, not fun!

I didn’t manage to find the time to blog while I was traveling. I did manage to find the time to tweet fairly often though, it could be said. It was much easier to tweet from my iPhone on the run than to sit down and write blog posts. I was going to blog about the trip as soon as I got back, but when I found out I had developed DVT, my immediate plans changed somewhat.

I seem to have spent the last two months working, but also visiting doctors, getting regular blood tests, taking warfarin, not drinking much alcohol and generally trying to stay healthy. As some of you may also know, we (my partner May and I) are soon to have our second child, so we’ve also been busy making preparations for the new arrival whenever possible.

Funny how a potentially life threatening condition can make you reassess your life and what’s really important. I am planning to blog more regularly here again now though. It feels right to get back into it again, now that my health feels like it’s getting back on track.

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