Comments on: Fantabulous Posterous

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:50:11 +0000

Thanks Brad. The beautiful part was how drop dead easy it is to set up a posterous site. The downside is if you allow public submissions, you moderate all posts, and within a few weeks, most of the stuff will be spam. They really need to get something like Akismet going.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:29:08 +0000

Posterous definitely wins the award in the category of “Brad’s favorite blogging platform.”

What you did with this Engelbart Birthday site is just so rad.

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:11:11 +0000

The power is the threshold to participate is low, people can reply to a post too in email.

If your book is an ebook, you might take a look at http://www.bookglutton.com/ nifty for creating discussions around books.

Yes, there are comment options you can set in powerous- no comments, only logged in users can comment, or anyone can comment.

By: Cindy Jennings

Cindy Jennings — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:58:53 +0000

Hmmm….have been searching for a way to host a ‘blog-a-book’ site for a distributed conversation as a faculty development opportunity for a while. Just have not come up with a simple enough tool so the tech does not get in the way/hinder participation in the dialogue. This looks pretty simple/is quite promising!
Just wondering though, is it possible to enable comments on Posterous sites? I don’t see that in their FAQ.
Thanks for the post!

By: Robin Heyden

Robin Heyden — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:45:19 +0000

Great way to use Posterous, CogDog. So efficient and it requires zero expertise on the part of your contributors and everyone can chime in with their contributions. Sweet.

I’m using Posterous these days for meeting agendas. I just slap an agenda up there and share the link. That way I can change/update it easily and everyone has the most recent version.

By: Jim Groom

Jim Groom — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:21:52 +0000

Hahahahaha, that is freaking awesome. We just read augmenting human intellect, and the class was like what?! And now they can send hima birthday greeting via posterous.

You are the dog, indeed.

Awesome stuff.