Tumblr Submissions: Create Your Own Community-Powered Blog. There's a common wisdom that personal blogging has slowly given way to microblogging: online sharing through Twitter and Facebook. Popular blogger Steve Rubel is a prime example: he recently declared that he would switch from blogging to life-streaming on Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook. But while personal blogging may have waned, professional blogs (like this one) have thrived. There are new, lightweight blogging communities springing up, too - Tumblr and Posterous being the most prominent examples (see Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head). These platforms are much less about long-form writing and more about instantly sharing snapshots of life: photos, videos, quotes and audio clips. But these still require you to update them everyday, and for a single writer, it's tough to maintain a flow of new content and ideas.
Enter Tumblr Submissions, a Tumblr feature launched earlier this week that makes the blogging process totally collaborative. Getting Started With Posterous | Black Web 2.0. Posterous Challenges Tumblr With New Bookmarklet - ReadWriteWeb. When we first reviewed Posterous, we called it a ‘minimalist blogging service.’ All you have to do to start blogging and sharing content on the service is to send an email to post AT posterous.com and it will automatically set up a blog for you. Now, however, Posterous is expanding its service and slightly changing its direction by adding a bookmarklet that puts it on a direct collision course with tumblr, the popular microblogging site. Supported Services Most importantly, Posterous’ new bookmarklet automatically extracts videos from sites like YouTube, Hulu, ESPN, Revision3, blip.tv, and many others. It also recognizes music on imeem and SoundCloud, as well as documents on Slideshare, scribd, and Docstoc.
The bookmarklet also picks up on photos from flickr, Photobucket, and Picasa, and you can even include live video from Seesmic, qik, and justin.tv. Autopost Taking on Tumblr.