From The Pit

If you're reading this, looks like things are working properly after the import of this from from Tumblr into Posterous. After some personal downtime, I'm up and running again and hopefully so is the writing- although uni and "real-life" may conspire to rob me of time for writing. Let the balancing act commence

Reasons for adoption of Posterous:

• Better social sharing and integration with social networks- i,e, Twitter and Facebook
  • or Posterous' implementation just looks prettier? LOL
• Integrated comments system
  • with Tumblr I had to tack on Disqus to achieve the same
• Ease of updating
  • sure, I can email into Tumblr but it doesn't seem to work as well as what Posterous promises. And while there is an Android app, it's third party and is sometimes temperamental
• Easier to include multiple media types in the same post
  • Tumblr defines separate media posting types - text, photo, audio, video, chat. Unfortunately it's not possible to mix these unless you use HTML mode, which I have from time to time- but if the aim is to get stuff published ASAP, then I don't want to be wasting time on formatting minutiae.

Best of all the autopost to Tumblr means that the old blog will automatically mirror this one here so from an external perspective, the only thing that will have changed is that this blog can now now be accessed from two places.

One concern I have though, is that I have my Tumblr blogs set to automatically post to Facebook and when this gets autoposted to From The Pit on Tumblr, it'll update Facebook so I may have to disable Facebook posting altogether for one of them because Posterous will also update Facebook. Also, there is no way to select on a post by post basis (or blog by blog even, because Tumblr's Facebook integration seems to be account-based)  whether I want this to happen.

I may have to delete the superfluous Facebook update manually. Twitter integration on the other hand does appear to allow control on a post-by-post and blog-by-blog basis, thankfully.

An easy solution I suppose would be import my main blog too and disable Tumblr's Facebook and Twitter posting altogether. Will see how this one goes first.

Update: OK, seems that Tumblr doesn't obey blog-by-blog Twitter posting settings