Sam Harrelson

Sam's Personal Stream of Life

Back to Posterous

I tried Tumblr. It's nifty, but not what I need for a blog.

So, I'm moving my static "SamHarrelson.com" site back to Flavors.me (should be back up shortly) and using this "SamHarrelson.me" site as my personal blog.

Apologies for the confusion but everything should still flow the same on the front end.

Thanks to the Posterous team for making an excellent platform that I just can't quit and missed while I was gone.

Back to Posterous

I tried Tumblr. It's nifty, but not what I need for a blog.

So, I'm moving my static "SamHarrelson.com" site back to Flavors.me (should be back up shortly) and using this "SamHarrelson.me" site as my personal blog.

Apologies for the confusion but everything should still flow the same on the front end.

Thanks to the Posterous team for making an excellent platform that I just can't quit and missed while I was gone.

After Years of Self-Hosting, It's Come to Posterous

I've finally done it.

I've moved my personal blog, the very epitome of my online identity, over to a hosted service.  I've been using Posterous since the Summer '08 and I've been increasingly impressed with its feature set, ability to stay agile and focus on remaining simple while still implementing new features and backend pieces of flair.  

I resisted moving to a hosted solution for my personal domain even after I've moved my data, my email, my calendar, my RSS reading, etc over to hosted solutions (mostly Google).  I view this as a symbolic move of cost and attention cutting in order that I may focus on the important things.

It's good to be here.

Thank you, Posterous. 

Now don't screw up :)

Google Wave Screenshots

Here are a few shots I've collected from kicking the Google Wave... ugh... tires? Interestingly enough, I can just drag-n-drop the pics straight onto a wave and then post straight to Posterous with the posterous robot. Fantastic.

Maps, Docs and Pics are incredibly easy to insert and edit (neato map tagging features that would be helpful if you're in a discussion about a place or meet-up):

Tweety Robot:

OAuth Integration with Twitter:

Full Twitter Stream:

If I were a news reporter, this would be killer.

I can't wait to see how Wave plays out when it is released to more folks.

via google-wave-robot

Update: Well, the image attachment didn't work from the Posterous Robot over to Posterous... hmm...

My OS (In Perpetual Beta)

Sent from my iPhone

The Future is Like-able (thx @scobleizer)

Just subscribed to Robert Scoble's Twitter Favs (RSS link) in Google Reader. Got the idea from this FriendFeed convo:
Hmm, how do I import my Twitter Favorites into FriendFeed. FriendFeed doesn't work with the RSS feed I found.
via friendfeed.com

I'm confident that the future of the RSS subscriber / Twitter Follower / Facebook Friend paradigm will (continue) to shift towards being based on Likes.

Facebook does this well, FriendFeed does this well, Google is really getting into this well (with more emphasis on Likes and Shares in Google Reader) and ultimately Twitter will start pushing this functionality more (and let us not forget the Posterous Favs option).

Soon, it won't matter how many followers/friends/subscribers you have, but how many Likes you chalk up... and that has much more emphasis on quality.

Great Review of @Posterous

Years of building and maintaining my Wordpress blog have resulted in my learning a lot about Wordpress and getting a lot of grease under my fingernails. Weeks of using Posterous has resulted in a media-rich blog with several posts per week. Tell me which service is more powerful.
via suntimes.com

I started using Posterous primarily as a photo-blog back in September of '08.

However, it's transitioned into my full time personal blog as I've changed up the samharrelson.com domain into a static landing (pointer) page.

Posterous solves so many problems for me.

Thanks to Andy Ihnatko for the great review affirming my love and thanks to the Posterous team for a fantastic product that has renewed my love of posting.