Posterous is doing some serious rapid innovation, especially in their autoposting capability. Exploiting the syntactic capabilities of standard RFC 822 e-mail addresses they’re building up a fairly sophisticated, yet accessible, infrastructure to flow content into social media sites.
The only nit I have is the last line of their autopost FAQ:
We do not autopost private posts, or posts created on private sites.
As I wanted to experiment with autoposting I was trying to send test stuff to my Twitter account. Since I’m just doinking around with posterous, my site was private. So here I am wondering where the heck the first twitter updates I’d sent in over a year were. Silly me.
One side benefit of using e-mail as a posting front end is that in many e-mail systems you can easily capture all of your outbound messages. Instant blog post backups!! Mitigates some of the backup issues I mentioned earlier.
Now I’m leaning even more towards experimenting with posterous, especially as a progress/development blog on my eventual 100 hour project.