Text and Hubris

I spent the last few weeks playing with Posterous and trying to integrate it with my existing WordPress platform. I had my reservations about the process. Posterous is not a site that I own and I am not a fan of handing my content over. It did have a great autoposter, though, and I was looking for a simple way to publish to multiple places. The idea of using email was incredibly attractive.

To that end, I can’t fault Posterous at all. It does a great job and I do highly recommend it. It is fully customizable and easily managed. It’s flexible and easy to use but powerful enough for many power users. Unfortunately, for me, it was another step in a chain of dissimilar products. While Posterous and WordPress do work together, a lot of what I do with WordPress cannot be easily duplicated via autopost in posterous. WordPress categories were never right with the posterous auto-post and I generally found myself re-editing WordPress after they finished. It ended up being more work not less.

This means that I will be disabling my Posterous in about a month. All posts are mirrored to my primary site here and I have found a WordPress post-by-email plugin that may actually work a bit better for me. We will have to see how that goes!

I will keep you all posted.