{"id":2728,"date":"2013-05-21T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2013-05-21T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T01:12:12","slug":"posterous-tumblr-and-blogging-outposts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/05\/21\/posterous-tumblr-and-blogging-outposts","title":{"rendered":"Posterous, Tumblr, and blogging outposts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fettuccine<\/a>I was always a Posterous user over a Tumblr user.<\/p>\n

How did I use Posterous? I would email photos, take random quotes from websites, etc. and ensure it made it to my “outpost”. I had stopped using Posterous a little before the Twitter acquisition, and didn’t care much for it when it shutdown. I did take a backup of my stuff though, because it never was federated to my own blog or anything like that. I did like the fact that it would post links to Twitter automatically and would save my images to Flickr as a backup bucket for my photos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How did I use Tumblr? It claims I have 11,766 items, which you can say is a mirror of my tweets for a period of time. It also contained a mirror of my Posterous posts. In fact it shows that it might have stopped not long after the iPhone 4 came to Malaysia and I visited Phnom Penh for a barcamp. So it does bring back memories. I just found the mass post editor – last Tumblr entry was October 2010. Apparently I started using it in June 2007. It might have even fed my last.fm feed to it as I can see music being popped in during the early days. It also states my timezone was GMT+10, so definitely legit – I was living in Melbourne then.<\/p>\n

I decided not to delete this archive (just to rename the subdomain with the -old tag – very handy). However the new blog will never be my primary blog due<\/a> to Tumblr’s architecture.<\/p>\n

So I guess that puts an end to the re-Tumblr experiment. I even had the bookmarklet installed in the browser raring to go.<\/p>\n

WordPress has aside<\/a> support. I don’t use it here but its almost similar to a service like Tumblr, no? I guess it goes back to owning your content – I’m a fan of keeping things here on a site that I control (note that I don’t use wordpress.com either).<\/p>\n

That said, Posterous sold for a lot less to Twitter (I speculate). Tumblr sold for $1.1 billion to Yahoo!. Let’s hope all is well, failing which users will be a migrating.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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