Free Post blog platforms Twitter buys Posterous: Why? In a surprise move, Twitter have acquired blogging site Posterous. The question of course, is: “why?” The information from the companies is pretty vague. Guess 1: (the view held by my Twitter community) It’s a pure talent acquisition, Posterous will be shuttered, and
Free Post blog platforms The Merger of Blogs and Social Networks One of the “joys” of living in the social media world is those days that you wake up, and discover your e-mail in-box crammed with something – comments on one of your posts, Twitter follows or, as happened this morning, a metric ton of new
Free Post blogging 3 Posts About The Future of Blogs & Comments I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the evolution of blogging, its interaction with social networking, and the role of content-based community on the web in recent weeks. These three posts really chimed with some of my conclusions: - Stephanie takes on[
Free Post blog platforms Innovation in Blog Platforms 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
Free Post creators Weekend Coffee Reading Lurking around in my browser tabs: - [On Makers and Managers](http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/2010/01/on-makers-and-managers-and-how-to-manage-your-day.html) – good look at the tension between these two roles that should be familiar to most people in journalism - [The Death of Tag
