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Posterous

Can a website be too easy to use? I don’t know if I would have said yes before today. And I’m still not sure I’m going to. But Posterous is a serious contender if ever there was one.

Essentially, a race (not involving Ashton Kutcher or Ted Turner) has been going on since Twitter gained so much market share of the social web, which you can read about here, over at TechCrunch. If you didn’t click that, here’s the lowdown: people post links and pictures and videos and blog-posts to a handful of different sites all over the internet. If there was an easy way to do that from wherever you are (which is key, here), that website’s service would win out. Ping.fm is a very serious contender, as is HootSuite, but even these don’t create the most usable content available for every person to view and use your content, or others’ content that you are posting, etc. But even these won’t let you (at least not super easily) post a blog-post or a full image gallery from wherever you are.

The point is this: if a service can provide you with a way to post to every site (social or otherwise) from anywhere in the world, then they will win. And for good reason. People are connected to social sites all over the place, and if you want to keep everyone up to date, you need to update all your sites. That’s where Posterous, Ping.fm, and HootSuite, etc., come in to play: they help you do just that. But Ping.fm and HootSuite, as I mentioned above, still won’t (easily) let you blog directly from their services, web or mobile-web. Posterous, however, does. And it does it via something virtually everyone has access to: email.

If you have an email account, they say, you can use Posterous. I have an email account, so I’m giving Posterous a shot. I regularly use Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, instant messagers (AIM and GTalk), and WordPress, among others. The question is, do I regularly want to post to these via mobile-web, “on-the-go?” My personal answer is yes. So, how do I this as painlessly as possible? Well, personally, I use Ping.fm to update all my statuses, including my instant messaging accounts. But how do I easily post pictures and blog-posts? For me, that’s the kicker. So, something like Posterous should be perfect.

Is it? I have no idea, since I started using it today. I’d heard of it, but I just didn’t know what it was. And far be it from me to not investigate a Web 2.0 site/service/whathaveyou. So I did today. And I’m going to give a shot. I’ll let you know if it helps out. My concerns, among others, are these: how will I format a blog post with pictures according to size and text-alignment, and how long will it take to upload mulitple pictures? Will people click it if they don’t see TwitPic? I’m not sure. Tim will tell. And so will Time.

Talk Soon,

Neal

Another Weather Post

So, I can’t really see out of my window right now, because there’s so much snow. It’s absurd. We’re supposed to get enough snow to ski on tonight and tomorrow morning. Something like 10-12 inches. Probably’ll look something like this.

In other news, I have a new favorite fake religion: sheeparyanism. It’s the religion for Mango the Rainbow Sheep.

It’s less than a week ’til Christmas, and I cannot wait. I also can’t wait to go to the Ham again. I’m stoked. I miss everyone, and I want to eat good Mexican food again. Not even kidding. Habeneros? Michael? Matt? Coolz? B-rad?

I used PeaPod.com to order my groceries for the first time. Yes, ordered. They should arrive tomorrow morning between 7:30am and 1:00pm. A five and a half hour span? Are you effing kidding me? That’s worse than the cable company. Jeez Louise. That’s my Mom’s name. I luh mi Mama.

Poppycock

What a great word. In fact, let’s just make it the word of the day.

Poppycock - Anglicized form of the Dutch pappekak, which literally means soft dung or diarrhea (from Dutch pap pap + kak dung) – is an interjection meaning “nonsense” or “balderdash”.

How beautiful. Not to mention insightful. Enjoy your poppycock.

SEC Championship! Roll Tide Roll!!!

just for good measure.. el Oso

Here’s some info/links to stay up on the SEC Championship game.

When: 4pm EST
Where: Atlanta, GA @ Georgia Dome
TV: CBS and CBS-HD

ESPN GAMECAST HERE!!!!

Links:
ESPN – SEC Championship Game
Google News Search – SEC Championship
Wikipedia – SEC Championship Game
ESPN College Football Scoreboard

Nazi and al Qaeda Legos

Yup. Nazi and al Qaeda Legos..

And then here’s the link .

Netflixbox 360?

I love my Netflix account. I enjoy XBOX 360 , even though I don’t own one, and I think I like the Wii better for me, because I’m not a hardcore gamer, like this guy, who, if you haven’t seen play computer games HARDCORE, you should. Here (Mom, if you’re reading this, this does have some language…and I love you).

However, that being said, I’m all about finding new ways to get Netflix online movies to play better and faster and bigger – meaning, of course, on my TV. If the new XBOX does that, then fine. But I think I’d probably personally stick with the Netflix Player by Roku.

If anyone has actually tried any of these or knows someone who has, please let me know, b/c I am willing to risk a Christmas gift on it. :)

I found out about all this at newser.com , the best quick way to get up to speed on the news – IMHO.

Newser

Here’s a great new website I have discovered via the ad-links in my Gmail account.

www.newser.com

Their self-blurb:

Face it: there’s too much news. At Newser a team of editors and writers culls the most important stories from hundreds of U.S. and international sources and reduces them to a headline, picture, and two paragraphs. It’s the Newser guarantee: we can take any report or column or video and pack what you need to know into 120 words or less. Newser’s short-form aggregation, visual format, and unique information tools help you get more of the kind of news you want, in a quicker and more entertaining way. And we do it 24/7—you can come back morning, noon, night (and in between) for something new that matters. Read less, know more.

Free Music

I just found – inadvertently – a very easy way to listen to any song you want (within a given online collection, I guess) instantly online.

Step 1: Go to www.lyricsmode.com
Step 2: Type in the name of the song you want to “get lyrics” for (read, “listen to in just two seconds”)
Step 3: Click the orange play button next to the name of your song
For example, if you wanted to listen to “Wires” by Athlete, you would look here and click the orange play button:

Step 4: Clicking the orange play button will take you to www.jango.com, where you can then listen to whatever song you have chosen.

I don’t know yet if you can also download the song(s) to your computer for free, but if you have an internet connection, you can listen to as much free music as you want pretty easily and simply. And here’s the other thing – if you go directly to jango.com, it won’t let you choose your song, only the band who plays it, and then it’s just playing the waiting game to see if you’ll get the one you wanted to listen to to begin with. Enjoy!

Listening,

Neal

Garfield Minus Garfield

This is a site that has removed all of Garfield and Otie from the Garfield comics, so only Jon Arbuckle remains. It’s hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking.

www.garfieldminusgarfield.net

Here’s a few of their comics.