[This was a test if posterous allows autopost to update] Is posterous the blog hub I have been looking for?

It would have been sooo great. Autopublishing via Posterous works fine, though for me it would be perfect if "editing" an already published article on Posterous would also be propagated to the other sites (where possible). But unfortunately that doesn't work (yet?).

When editing a published article on Posterous you'll find a autopost section which says that this
This is useful if you hadn't already autoposted. This can happen if you've either emailed posterous@posterous.comor did not select the "Autopost" checkbox when posting via web/bookmarklet.

So autopost is a "send and forget" feature, that is a pity but still very useful. Hope the Posterous guys change that soon. Of course it is tricky, but if I remember correctly the API of Blogger (and possibly Wordpress) should allow updating published posts.

The text from the edited post:

I have various blogs for various subjects. Now I could mix them all into one, but then I couldn't easily share them with others. Nor could I address different readers easily. Let's say I have a personal blog, a company blog and a information technology blog. I don't want to bore all my friends with too many posts about group application stuff, or maybe even a particular clever code.  But I would like to share some of my blogging tips with friends, because some of them might have personal blogs. I would also love to share some of my startup company achievements with my friends.

So what I was looking for is in technical terms even more than a hub for what posterous calls autopost. I would like to finetune the forward publishing indidually for each location or service. In networking technology, this would be a managed switch. An intelligent hub. Even more so, I am not a perfect writer, so if I could also edit my old posts and posterous then sends the editions to the other publishing locations (where possible), now that would be really great.

The switch thing should work. Posterous let's you fintune that by using email address tweaks, such as #1moment@posterous.com.  And of course email can be sent to more than just one address... I don't know yet about the "editing" bit. I'll keep you updated.

BTW this post should show up in Facebook, my Twitter, 1moment.org and qompute.net.

If you read this sentence, posterous has also updated the post after my post-publishing edits.  That is great stuff :-)

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