Jotpress is a new blogging platform that lets you easily write posts by email. It also lets you just copy and paste images into the body of the email without using its url address. You can also go directly to your blog to write a post.
It’s a very simple process that is great for people/students new to tech. However, if you wanted to use this kind of application instead of something like Edublogs (which I still think is the best blogging platform), I don’t understand why you wouldn’t use Posterous. It seems to have all the advantages of Jotpress — and more.
Am I missing something?
Nevertheless, I’m adding Jotpress to The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online. You can never have too many of these types of apps — you never know which ones might be blocked, or not blocked, by district content filters.
I think the main difference between the two is that while Posterous is a blogging platform, Jotpress is that, but it also has a community aspect to it. Once I create a blog on any other platform, I am on my own, and my readership is coming from the open web. Here, on top of that, people can chose to “follow” me, and they are notified by email any time I change/add anything. That is, it allows follower groups to form, which is very important for any blogger who does not have a wide natural readership. For student groups that can be a great feature.
Jotpress is less of a blog and more of a community. Here, you don’t set up a blog, thus appealing to more casual users who want to write without setting up a site/blog to maintain.
Not only does Jotpress combine an easy blogging platform and social networking, but it also becomes a destination to read what other people are saying. An anology I saw on the web recently was Twitter + Posterous = Jotpress. You can microblog or post your thesis, but this new site also has a community feel similar to Facebook with your own personal page to see all the activities from the people you are following and your own posts.