Occasionally in recent months, I've bemoaned the lack of innovation in blog platforms. However, I'm not being very precise in my use of language there. What I actually mean is the lack of innovation in self-hosted blog platforms - ones you actually upload to your own servers. In the world of hosted blog platforms there's a whole world of interesting stuff going on. Tumblr, Posterous, Typepad Micro and Squarespace are all creating new paradigms for the blog platform, one that I want to explore more in the coming months. For example, I've spent part of this morning setting up a group blog on Posterous for a work-related event coming up soon.
And I've decided to connect OM&HB to Posterous as a side-project to see how it goes.
This post was written in my e-mail client and posted directly to Posterous, from where it should find its way to my blog. Fingers crossed...
Hi Adam
With my work hat on for once - I've been trying to set up Posterous to autopost to one of RTG's blogs, but I keep getting a "We were not able to authenticate this account. Reason: Invalid login" error. Any secrets to share?
Ta, James
Don't worry, I've cracked it - you need to use the web services password, not the password you log in with. But you probably knew that!
If you'd waited 24 hours you'd have had my one page guide to doing that. :-)