The Steve Rubel Lifestream

Steve - thanks for this. I see you say you *don't* autopost to FriendFeed - yet I see your FriendFeed badge under your profile - how does that work?

@Scott, it's all in where you email. I make sure that I don't email anything to the Friendfeed autopost.

What where you thinking when you wrote that title? ;) Good post though, getting more and more fond of posterous too.

@Bart it rhymed! :)

I've also tried posterous.com's search, but I was VERY UNIMPRESSED. :S

For example: check out http://posterous.com/explore?search=steve+rubel&sort=bestmatch

Doesn't seem very useful to me... :/

@Norbert, on a macro level, you are right. But within a site it is great.

And I've been pronouncing it to rhyme with preposterous...

That isn't even very macro -- after all: we're talking ON POSTEROUS.COM.

On the Macro level, I like how Dave Winer responded to an issue I raised yesterday:

"It may not be indexed by Google, but it's still on the web." (Dave Winer, in response to http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/06/30/whileYouWereSleepingFromBe.html#comment-11928403 ;)

Unfortunately, Mr. Winer censored the comment I made in response to his... -- it's a shame that he censors the comments to his blog. If he were more open and transparent, there might be some interesting discussions, but since he DOES censor it, he comes as a shill for his own point of view.

I like a lot of his ideas, but unfortunately he simply screws is up with his own mismanagement of his blog.

Sorry to go off on a tangent like that (I think it was sparked by the concept "macro level" ;)....

Norbert I do agree that if disqus could be running on posterous, we'd all be more inclined. I think the idea that your comments are just as valid as your blog or email, and should therefore be trackable in one location is an important shift for web 2010 etc.

BUT - of course - FriendFeed picks this all up and we can comment quite happily there and here - can we not?

... oops -- that's an oxymoron isn't it? OK, maybe he simply comes off as "bogus".

;) nmw

Steve, can you compare/contrast of Posterus/Tumblr. I'm not sure I understand the nuanced differences except for the focus on management by email.

I'm in love with Posterous too . . . but it was strange that I searched posterous for both "Rubel" and "Steve Rubel" and it couldn't find any results either way. Strange!

@Scott sorry ( cross-posted and the flew off ... chirp! ;)

Anyways, the bifurcation of blogs into posts vs. comments is something I am trying to mash up with many of my sites (a couple of which I have posted on http://0-0.info .. this is really just a start ;).

Note that what twitter started I am extrapolating by simply using wordpress tools to do the same.

In this context, let me also note that I find that the guys developing http:/amplify.com are also really strongly pushing the envelope and moving the web forwards in leaps + bounds -- I feel they are doing a LOT!)

In general, I think we a re now at a stage where we need to re-examine which web 2.0 tools are useful, and which of them are merely a burden. Indeed: Some of the biggest web 2.0 brands may very well fall into the latter category.

At this point, I'm not sure that any single database is all that important - whether twitter or friendfeed... -- or Google. (and this is what I like about Dave Winer's response to my question: he is also implicitly saying "Google doesn't matter" ;)

And I thing Steve (Rubel) totally gets that web! :D He seems to understand it on the very basic level -- much like Barack Obama's team understsood that causes.com was the "way to go" (maybe they read the "Wisdom of the Language" http://gaggle.info/miscellaneous/articles/wisdom-of-the-language ;)

@Norbert - thank you for the great reply. I've checked those sites out and will munch on your ideas.

The one I pick out is the assessment of Web 2.0 tools that are a burden. A very keen insight - a look at all the social media sites shows a lot of fluff!

Steve, great post. A quick question - how did you post this? From email? Or from within Posterous? I am curious (as a new Posterous user myself) how to include multiple images and media inline like you did. For example, text text text picture text text audio text text. From the email style post, it looks like you can only have the pictures and media appear in a set place in your post, yet this post is more "bloggie". Thanks! -Chris

Chris with Apple Mail and new Gmail labs you can position media within the email, as opposed to merely attaching it

Steve, any idea when Posterous will roll out the ability to customize?

@Chris, I posted it via email. @Stephanie, word is within a few weeks.

I hope Posterous is at least sending you stickers. You're doing a great job promoting their service.

It has been nice reading about this switch, Steve.

One little curiosity about something else that might need an "incremental improvement," is there no way to make your profile page URL a little more name branded? http://posterous.com/people/3y76Rtgx4 is a bit of an eye sore ;-)

-Matt

@Matt, not that I am aware of. But I link my profile to my Google one.

I was eating my toasterous reading this posterous and you got me thinking about what the costerous is to not using this great services features. You hosterous a great site, a lot to boasterous about!

Does Posterous comments get indexed by Google? Much better to have own comment system than for example Disqus. That way we can build up our posts with more content via comments.

No idea if comments are indexed. I imagine they are.

After reading all your posterous posts, I now have a convenient way to post to twitter by email. Thanks for sharing the temptation.