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Well, that was easy. (The details on post.ly)
Okay, I get it now. post.ly is simple and works really well. If you have a Posterous account, and a Twitter account, and you're signed in to the Posterous account, but not necessarily the Twitter account, but it doesn't hurt if you are signed in to the Twitter account you just don't need to be ... I'm complicating it.
Simply: you go to URL post.ly. You enter a short, tweet-style message in the big box. If you do nothing else, this is posted to your Posterous blog and simultaneously to Twitter. On Posterous the big-box text becomes the title of the blog entry, and the entry has no further text.
Going further: if you click on the button below to add text, you get a 'Describe your post' box which does not get posted to Twitter, but does become the blog entry body text. A link to the blog entry is appended to the tweet so people can follow it back to your Posterous blog.
Neat. Well done, Posterous.
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Ok, getting somewhere
I think I see how the 'tweet' text becomes the title in a Posterous post. I take it this bit become the body copy ...?
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'I get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country ...'
via ted.com
I've also been irritated by this for years. People so easily use the word Africa to signify one place, one idea. After all this time that idea is still the homogenous heart of darkness. In this talk at TED, Chimamanda Adichie touches on this (at about 05:40) but it is framed within her bigger idea of the 'single story': we can all fall into the trap of viewing things, places, people, ideas, in this singular, one-dimentional way. It's limiting, unimaginative, and encourages us to emphasise differences, rather than notice similarities.
The online TED Talks is an amazing resource. From culture to science to arts to technology, it's an inspiring melting pot of cross-disciplinary ideas. I urge you to subscribe to their RSS or iTunes feed without delay.
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