Read Trying out Micro.blog by Jeremy Felt (jeremyfelt.com)
Services like Micro.blog should spend more time telling everyone about features like “oh, by the way, we have a dedicated discovery page for posts about pizza“. That kind of pitch and I would have signed up for an account 2 years ago. Here I am discovering new things though. I got here beca...
Micro.blog is indeed doing some great things.

I feel so nostalgic for Posterous after reading this. It was a nice little platform.

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Chris Aldrich

I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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  1. teledyn says:

    @chrisaldrich this is a long shot, but if the code for Posterous exists someplace, maybe it could be opensourced?In a 'why not' moment, I've put the question to inventor Sachin Agarwal https://twitter.com/teledyn/status/1542916663728898048?s=20&t=fHVUAyOIpIGNseE6Hw0Teg

  2. Chris Aldrich says:

    Super long shot as I suspect that as part of the acquihire/acquisition Twitter bought the code for Posterous. If this is the case, there’s almost no hope it comes back. Probably easier to write a simple blogging platform from scratch.

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