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Resurrect your dead blog by importing it to Posterous

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43 pointsrantfoil13 comments

I understand Posterous is a YC company, and we're supposed to be all ga-ga eyed about them... but in all honesty the only thing to resurrect your dead blog is you. Not software. Just sit down and write.

It's so easy to use that I do think it encourages more activity.

Easy of use is important. Isn't that what helped Twitter grow?

The point is that using posterous removes the added effort that 'blogging' seems to be.

By redefining the problem as email, it's much easier to just sit down and write. For example, I had been thinking of tracking my moods for a very long time. Finally, what I did was sign up for posterous and set up a google calendar reminder. All I now have to do is hit reply and type a couple of lines. It's been working great for two months.

I'm just looking for a way I can get Posterous great backend features working elegantly with Squarespace's solid UI features. Both companies pretty much entirely ignore the other aspect and if one or the other caved-in and took a stab at improving in the other area, I'd finally have just the right service.

Note to other blogging startups: If you can combine both of the above things well, you can have my $15-30/month, for what it's worth.

Edit: I'm going to try again and see if I can get them to talk through API layers that aren't exposed, but Squarespace didn't know of an easy way to do it-- ideally one service does it all.

We autopost to any blog running metaweblog api, which square space does. I was able to add a square space site to my test account and autopost to it fine, but others have had issues. email us if you need to do this and need help

Thanks a lot for the response. So far seems to be working quite well. I uploaded a youtube vid, a pic, and an MP3 and it seemed to work great.

I was expecting them to have an RSS feed input for their blogs on their end, but it doesn't seem to work that way.

You guys should license your services to them as I'd be happy to pay a few dollars each month to have your kind of easy input mechanisms over there automagically. (Yeah, I know it's free now, but it doesn't feel like it should be.)

I have sympathies for YCsterous, but that is a standard feature of all serious blog engines.

But Posterous isn't a serious blog engine. It is by very loose definitions of "blog engine" but it's a service trying to do stuff that Wordpress and Typepad don't do. I don't like comparing it dead-on to Wordpress. If you did, Wordpress would come plenty short in a lot of ways.

This is a great feature to have, particularly the Tumblr importing option. There're plenty of disgruntled Tumblr users right now looking for a way out.

There're plenty of disgruntled Tumblr users right now looking for a way out.

Interesting. Why? Anything besides that security snafu awhile back?

Tumblr started off as a quiet, clean way of posting. It has since then become noisy, obsessed with popularity, and filthily cluttered. I joined originally because I like that it never pressured me to do things on it. They nuked that style in favor of loud and obnoxious.

I like the idea of this page and just started a blog there. Will I be more active as in my last tries to blogging? Only time can tell. But I don't really believe it. When I look at other blogs on this page, I see the mostly copied stuff from other places and artwork I like but don't want to see all the day. Did someone found a blog there, where someone is really talking about something new (meaning, creating real content, not just talking about other peoples stuff)?

Where was this 2 months ago? I spent way too much time bringing my old WP posts over.

Hrrm I tried importing my wordpress blog and just got an error. Any tips for this? Does it import comments also?

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