Moving to Posterous...
I've had a self-hosted Wordpress blog for a while but my post frequency has dropped right off. I think this may in part be due to a feeling that however straightforward it is to use writing a post is an 'event' I need to set aside time for... hence I never make the time as there is always something more important I should be doing. I'm going to see if trying something new gets some spontaneity back into my blogging so I'm going to try using Posterous, a service where you post by email (note that you can do this with Wordpress too).
Swapping to Posterous has been pretty straightforward. There's an option to import your entire blog which works pretty well. The only thing that doesn't work is that comments don't come across, not a big deal in my case as there weren't many on my old blog so I'll probably include these as addendums to the original posts for posterity. They are apparently working on this. As I intend to ditch the hosting I pay for I need to make sure the links to the photos in my old posts are changed as these point to my current webspace. I'm only going to use free services so I think I'll use a combination of links to flickr for the better photos and use Picasa for storing other images I want to use. My next step is making sure everything is formatted properly then switching my own domain to point here.One nice thing I found was if you email help@posterous.com it's Sachin Agarwal, one of the co-founders of Posterous who answers your question... he does so really promptly too!
Update: there's a good interview with Sachin on Download Squad introducing Posterous. They came through Y Combinator last year. Note how the first question in the comments gets a reply from Sachin straightaway. It's so good to see someone 'on it' like this. Same goes for the other founder, Garry Tan, on this article.
