posterous

Twitter buys Posterous: Why? Members Public

In a surprise move, Twitter have acquired blogging site Posterous [http://blog.twitter.com/2012/03/welcoming-posterous-team-to-flock.html]. The question of course, is: “why?” The information from the companies is pretty vague [http://blog.posterous.com/big-news]. Guess 1: (the view held by my Twitter community) It’s a pure

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

The Merger of Blogs and Social Networks Members Public

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 followers on Typepad [http://www.typepad.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

3 Posts About The Future of Blogs & Comments Members Public

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[ two evolutions of blogging she really

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Innovation in Blog Platforms Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

Weekend Coffee Reading Members Public

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 Clouds](http://woorkup.com/2010/01/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
creators