Posterous vs. tumblr is going to get interesting!
The people at posterous are working hard! Tumblr just made some nice changes too recently.
I just noticed that you can now customize your posterous html and css and add a custom url to your posterous account: http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-theming-its-here-its-live-and-its-t
This makes posterous a lot more like tumblr, except posterous is better than tumblr at letting you post to multiple accounts at once.
I think tumblr still has a better theme design community (designers create tumblr themes for fun/self-promotion), but if posterous can get a community of designers to start designing posterous themes the tumblr vs. posterous microblogging smackdown will get interesting.
I just bought DrHorowitz.me. Hopefully I’ll find some free time to play around with posterous soon.
WordPress is still king in terms of its community of designers, but not everyone wants to learn php and to pay for server space. In 5 years when kids grow up learning to speak html and css is tumblr or posterous going to be their microblogging platform of choice?
twitter.com/dmhoro
dmhoro.tumblr.com
facebook.com/dmhoro
google.com/profiles/dmhoro
Is html and CSS really that hard? I deal with PHP all the time and, admittedly, don't know it well. If I need someone, I contract out with a php developer colleague. Small jobs mostly. Most .php pages seem largely html and I just stay away from the php tags, but you will catch the basics soon enough.
As far a server space, Godaddy allows 3rd party apps on all their Linux servers for like $4.37 a month.. How cheap should it be? I'm certainly not hosting web traffic on a machine in my house…
@winotone is this your twitter name James?
I agree that it's not incredibly difficult to get started, but you kind of have to make web design your lifestyle to get good at it. Drinking wine and eating food or watching football and baseball is an easier lifestyle.