It’s pretty easy these days to set up a free blog. There are a number of great options, including Blogger, Vox, Wordpress and Tumblr. You simply go to the site, select an available user name, enter your email address and password and click “enter”. You’ll then have access to a dashboard which gives you the options to customize your blog, such as theme, title, about page, etc.
Once set up, you go to your blog’s dashboard and create a new post, add an image, links, and videos. Once you’re satisfied with your post, you click the submit button, and the post shows up on your blog.
I recently came across a new blog platform called Posterous. This system takes the ease of setting up a blog to a whole new level. You don’t even have to visit the website. To set up a new Posterous blog, simply send an email to post@posterous.com with the title of your first post in the Subject Line, and the content in the body, and your new blog is instantly created! It’s that simple.
The beauty of Posterous, is that just about any file type can be added as an attachment, including images and videos, and will then show up in your post. If you add multiple image files, Posterous creates a killer photo gallery, including thumbnails, which looks really professional.
Once you’ve set up your blog by email, you have the option of going into the website and customizing your blog with password and title. There’s also a great Firefox browser plug-in available which puts a button on your toolbar, allowing you to post almost anything from your web browser with the click of a button. Works beautifully.
The way that I (and lots of other people) use Posterous the most, is by snapping a quick pic on my iPhone, and then emailing it to post@posterous.com along with a caption that I enter into the subject line. A few moments later, my new blog post is live. Since I’ve been using Posterous over the last few months, I’m finding that I’m always on the lookout for entertaining photos to take and post to the site, and that I’m posting things I would never post on a traditional blog.
You can check out my Posterous blog at http://kenburnstein.posterous.com. You can also browse through some very amusing blogs at http://posterous.com.
Please feel free to post a link to your Posterous blog as a comment here. I’d love to see what you do with it….
