Thanks for hanging in there and not throwing tomatoes. I have been testing to see if Posterous has been able to “work around” difficult web posts- blip.fm songs, for example, and the elf yourself videos, which you create and then are available for download if you purchase them.
Elf me, Baby!
Posterous is smart and can sense a lot of things. When “disallowed” access to media- as in these cases, I assume- it does the best it can and at this point does not circumvent the “stops” that are in place.
I had seen reference to whether or not Posterous blurs “copyright standards” even further than they are. I use Posterous often to grab an interesting article that I see, and post it. You can tell on the site itself what part is quoted and what isn’t, and after the first few times, I took only enough to lead me back to the article and show up in Posterous search.
You could even tell which was which on most of the themes that I experimented with on WordPress. Some even put big honking quotation marks around the “quoted text”- and that was fine with me. I am not out to steal someone else’s ideas- only “build off of them” and “learn.”
But the line is blurry. When my Posterous clips are “shot over” to Facebook, they are stripped of a lot of the “identifiers” th at let you know when one person’s quotes leave off and my thoughts begin. Even sometimes when I click the “share” button for ordinary events I want to pass on from other friends you can’t discern that “it really isn’t my post.” I have to go back in and make an attribution note.
Likely, if it is posted on the ‘net, someone is hoping the content goes viral. We all want to be the next Shay Carl or Robert Scoble- well, I would have to be a hell of a lot smarter to be Scoble, but you “catch my drift.” And online, that is possible.
Diane believes that she was a Zagat Guide in a past life