Why am I so quiet? Posterous of course!
Just in case you were wondering why I’ve been so quiet recently, it’s quite simple. The difficulty with blogging is that it needs dedication and time. When you’re looking at this big white box that’s just screaming “fill me!” it’s quite daunting.
But I’ve recently found Posterous. Yes, I know that there are loads of people out there who already know about it but it’s been a new discovery for me, and it’s great – I can publish short posts, photo’s and excerpts from web pages from my mobile easily.
And the best bit?
They can be really short!
So, if you want to see what I’m posting about then have a look at my Posterous account, or just follow me on twitter, my Posterous posts get sent there automatically without me having to think or worry about it!
And if you want to get yourself an account just send them an email to post {at} posterous [dot] com (you don’t even need to sign up for an account!)
tr.im – the death of a URL Shortener
I’ve been using tr.im for about 6 months now and have been a huge fan of the service. It offered analytics as well as some of the shortest URLs in the field.
However, I just noticed over on Mashable that tr.im is discontinuing its service effective immediately. This is of course shocking news and means that I will have to rearrange a number of my links. In fact, I’ve used some of the trimmed URLs in blog posts – but I can’t remember which ones!
Thankfully, I recently downloaded PrettyLink for WordPress, so at least I’ll be able to shorten URLs for my blog, and twidroid allows links through a few different services so, although it’ll be annoying, it won’t completely cripple me just yet…
However what worries me that companies can fall so quickly. I haven’t heard anyone speculating about the URL shortening business and yet, from the wording of tr.im’s announcement, it seems that it may be something that we need to be concerned about, and hope that the other services find a way to monetise this, especially in this twitter-centric web.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and get pretty linking…
