Well, had a quick look at Bimbl yet I am not impressed. Should the team at Posterous be worried?

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Last week I shared Posterous with some colleagues during a lunchtime Geek
meet. The image display component of Posterous impressed one colleague in
particular and he is now using Posterous to display his junior Geography
students’ Comic Life projects.

Each project was exported as image files. My colleague then posted each
project to Posterous as a separate email.

http://yr7geography2008.posterous.com/

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Posterous is a brilliant blogging tool. It is getting better each week. 

You post to your Posterous blog via email. That is possible with WordPress and Blogger, for example, yet Posterous make it so much easier. You simply send your email to post@posterous.com. There is no need for a complex email address. You can also post simultaneously or separately to your Twitter and Flickr account. You can post to all three at once via email.

Yet, more significant than that is the fact Posterous will set up a nice interactive image gallery with your post if you add the images as attachments and email them along with your post. The image gallery is elegant. It is so easy! See the Posterous blog post example below or for real here.

You can also send mp3 files as an attachment and it will set up a mp3 player, a link to the mp3 file. Podcasting made so easy! [Image below borrowed from Posterous faq page]

It will automatically convert urls included in the email as links. It will also automatically embed YouTube videos and similar services. All you need to do is include the relevant link in the email post to your blog. Other email attachments are added to blog posts as well with a  download link. Setting up an account is simple.

Then why am I not using it as yet? Well, I have no control over comments other than disallowing comments, allowing all comments or only allowing comments from registered Posterous users. I would love to be able to moderate comments. Other than that Posterous has a feature set I would love to see implemented in WordPress.

Recently, a participant at one of my workshops, Gabriel, shared with me the usefulness of NetNewsWire as a feed reader. I downloaded and installed it and I have been using it for a few days now. Not bad indeed. It is a client side application for the Mac. It is a typical Mac app. When the feeds arrive they are viewed as a simple list according to the title of the blog post. An example is illustrated below. As you look at the list of blog post titles below see if you can interpret the content of each blog post.

This list illustrates the importance of a suitable title for your blog post. This is not always an easy task. The post title should be descriptive and reflective of the blog post’s content. I believe that a descriptive blog post can also assist with a Google search on that topic. Your blog post is more likely to be located and selected if the post title is representative of the post content.

I have been playing around with a visualisation of RSS feeds. I began by creating a collage of logos and headings in Adobe Photoshop Elements. I was then going to create bezier curved lines with arrows. This was not possible in Elements. This is a work in progress.

Not too sure how to label semantic tools like AideRSS, Yahoo Pipes! and Dapper. They all filter and/or mix feeds. They could also be placed between the various RSS sources and the news aggregators in the centre. Then of course the RSS feeds from the news aggregators can be fed into tools like NetVibes and Pageflakes. Feeds from the aggregators could also be pumped back into blogs, and so on.

Just a start. Still have the PSD file with all the layers.