Josh Andrews

Obama's visit to the Republican caucus is one the more fascinating moments in American politics in recent years. Actual high level political conversation and debate from elected officials. Some thoughtful discussion on the event here. 

One of my new year resolutions is to update this website more often. After the silence of 2009, the bar is set pretty low (this post alone puts me about 1/3 towards the road to success). To help this effort, I am trying out Posterous, the email-centric blogging platform. Posterous allows users to publish content via email (I am writing this post in my Gmail account). You attach rich media elements, photos, videos, links,etc. just as you would attach a document to an email, and Posterous resizes and formats it all for you. The Posterous founders have been clear about reinvigorating blogging as a practice by making it easier, faster, and more mobile.

Posterous users are given their own webage on the platform (you can see my Posterous page – a mirror of the posts on this site) but I plan to use the service mainly as a publishing tool for this website, which is built on Wordpress. So I gain the advantage of the Posterous approach to fast, mobile blogging, while retaining the flexibility and identity of my own website (this is similar to how I end up using Friendfeed. I rarely check in with my Friendfeed account, but I do tie all my social accounts into it and then take that consolidated feed to publish the “recent activity” widget on the sidebar of this page).

Posterous also has the ability to auto-update my blog posts to all the social networks I use – but I am hesitant to do so at this point. I already have a number of these accounts tied together and risk falling into a social media shame-spiral of status update feedback. This morning I took a moment to illustrate the current set up between this website and all my social media accounts (I later realized that I forgot to add Delicious to the chart).