Mobile photo blogging workflow issues
I did a couple experiments today using posterous.com and ping.fm in an attempt to achieve a specific workflow with my mobile photo blogging. It’s fairly simple, but specific enough that it wouldn’t be an out-of-box solution that most services offer. Here’s the gist of it:
1. Take a photo on my Blackberry
2. Email it to a single address
3. Photo posted to Flickr, Facebook, Blog
4. Shortened URL _from Flickr_ posted to Twitter (or possibly the URL of my blog, with Flickr image embedded)
Ping.fm allows me to post to a whole bunch of places – assuming I’m only sending text. With photos, it’s a whole runaround process. Flickr upload works just fine. Facebook upload requires that you moderate every photo, requiring an extra step and an extra login to Facebook. Blog posting works, but the image is linked from Ping.fm servers, not Flickr. And Twitter post is a shortened URL to Ping.fm also.
Posterous came much closer to giving me what I wanted. One email address. Photo automatically posted to Flickr, Facebook, blog…. but unfortunately the Twitter link is only to my Posterous. Now I can understand this, but why not offer options?
Fortunately, after I noted my frustrations on Twitter, the creator of Posterous instantly responded, and after a brief email exchange, he left me with the email above.
I guess I’m in good company, huh Jason?
