How I Use Posterous

After kicking the idea around for a while, I finally decided to sign up and give Posterous a try. For those of you who are not familiar with Posterous, it’s a simple blogging platform that allows you to post anything to the Web using e-mail. Simply send an e-mail to post@posterous.com including content such as text, documents, photos, videos, music, or audio and Posterous will take care of the rest.

The reason I decided to use Posterous is because it bridges the gap between Twitter and my WordPress blog. There’s a lot going in the space between Twitter and a full length blog so I felt it was necessary to have space where I can post content that exceeds the 140 character limit and falls short of my formal WordPress content.

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AP Stylebook Finally Changes “Web site” to “website”

Although I’m not a journalist, I tend to follow the AP Stylebook when I write blog posts since it’s considered the standard for grammar and punctuation in the media world. Like most bloggers, I have gone back and forth between the spelling and capitalization of technological terms such as website, Web page, webmaster, Internet, e-mail, and the Net. Staying consistent when using these terms in a blog post, newspaper article, or magazine is important so that’s when style rules come into play. Most of these terms have already settled to a standardized form and now there is one more to add to the list, the term “website.” Today, the Associated Press (AP) formally announced at the American Copy Editors Society Conference that the term “Web site” will change to “website.” According to a tweet in AP’s Twitter stream, the change will take effect immediately in the AP Stylebook Online and will appear in the 2010 AP Stylebook print edition which will be available next month.

The style change doesn’t come as a surprise given how many people have “Asked the Editor” to change the style from “Web site” to “website.” I have always preferred “website” instead of “Web site” simply because the latter was an antiquated way of writing it. However, since the AP Stylebook used “Web site,” I thought it would be best if I followed the correct spelling and capitalization style rules.

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