Posterous: Preposterous
The good news about posterous is that it allows you to mass post your “personal” blog posts to several different sites. The bad news: so what? There are plenty of other tools that can do the same thing and are far more efficient. Posterous is good for those who are very short on time and who wish to spam their various social media accounts. Thus, that begs a question: why are there so many social media channels? When the economy shifts or enters into a recession, usually there is a lull in activity. There is fear. People hoard precious metals.
In every business cycle for the last two hundred years there has always been a technological innovation on the horizon that draws people like moths to a flame. A great example of this phenomenon was during the late 1990’s, when the web was exploding; thousands of companies formed to exploit its potential. How many survive to this day? Very few.
With every great technological innovation (radio, television, railroad, airplane, etc) there is a mass of capital investment, much of which goes to waste. Through the process of natural selection only a few survive, and those that do end up cornering a market, or forming an oligopoly. Amazon comes to mind, does it not?
The next wave is social media. Social marketing, social media, social networking — none of this is new. These days existed back in the 1970’s, when scientists and only scientists used the internet, and particularly usenet, to broadcast networking opportunities. At a speed of around 150 baud. How fast is 150 baud compared to a modern broadband modem? Let’s not Go There.
At any rate, posterous is one social spice resting upon a shoddy shelf filled with social media ingredients. This is but one of many applications swirling and congealing within a tepid stew of other similar automated social media contraptions.
At the moment posterous doesn’t seem to offer much besides automation; a personal blog it is not. One of many spices it is, several of which internet social media cooks are quick to adopt but just as ready to toss aside. I’ve been around the block, I’ve seen this before.
This is my first post on posterous, perhaps there will be more. Writing this gives me an excuse to copypasta this doggerel to my own blog, located at seanfindley.com, a spot on the internet that so far out of the reach of the empire even the stormtroopers don’t take vacations there.
(originally posted on posterous.com)