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me too, I have always pronounced is: post..ear..ous

I've always associated the name with "posterity" (though the post/poster association is also apparent) and taken that as a cue for pronunciation.

From what I've heard, it started as "preposterous" in terms of it's preposterously easy to use.

I heard it as the effort required to blog was preposterous, pre-Posterous.