* I second the author’s recommendation that if you’re only looking for an e-reader, go with another Kindle version. In my opinion, there’s nothing better than reading an e-ink display.

* Although I personally don’t browse the Web with my Kindle Fire (I prefer using my computer), some of the issues you mentioned are greatly minimized with the use of a Stylus. The kinds of frustrations mentioned above motivated me to get Amazon’s basic stylus for touchscreen devices. Since receiving my stylus, I haven’t lain a finger on my Fire’s screen since–Edward Stylihands, anyone?

* I love my Kindle Fire for the things it does very well:
1) Apps – educational and entertainment apps (especially those updated to work well with Kindle Fire) are a blast to use on the Fire. The only downside is the number of apps that will work on an unrooted Fire is significantly lower than the offerings in the Android Market. Hopefully demand will drive more apps into the Fire Appstore.

2) Entertainment – Amazon Prime TV & Movies start up right away and look great on the screen. Whether using the built-in speakers or my headphones, audio is sufficiently clear (although I wish the volume controls were more granular–sometimes it’s impossible to get the level just right).

3) Email – the built-in email app hooks up to my Gmail accounts and makes it easy to read an entire email message without too much scrolling. With my stylus in hand, I can also crank out a typo-free message pretty quickly, too.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Is it possible to export my blog to Tumblr?

… but in this case it is warranted.

In fact, I am usually happy with the changes made to sites I use every day– for example, google just improved the HTML5 interface to their iPad based search. There are now some well placed buttons to allow you to filter by date, relevance, etc., which make absolute sense, and are clearly the result of a competent upgrade. I much prefer this over the old sidebar that didn’t work as well on an iPad, as it does on a computer (and I can still use the sidebar if I want to).

I know for a fact that google rolls out even insignificant updates slowly to groups of users, and carefully judges the response before pulling the plug on an existing interface. posterous did none of this.

Certainly it is believable that posterous’ engagement metrics are off the charts– with your users who are royally upset with the way you broke the blogging service to sloppily and unexpectedly layer on a social media layer.

IF ‘so much testing’ was done… than why is the blog thread for ‘spaces’ on the posterous site is now just a litany of ‘bugs’ and complaints about the various features that were broken or removed in the update?

Why do I still have to still tell you about obvious things that are missing, broken or badly implemented?

…like the tab to expand the posting view while I write (as this page has) that are now missing — or that the hastily replaced ‘Management’ (now ‘Posts’, an extra click) view which in addition to having too much whitespace doesn’t show you the date anymore of posts that are scheduled in the future.

Bottom line is you’re offering a free service, and as I’m not paying for the privilege, you can do pretty much anything you want.

Honestly, I’ve been waiting for you to offer some pro features I could pay for, or even just the ability to use javascript in my web template (like Tumblr does) so I could link my photo blog to a pay photo site — or even just the ability to post photos embedded in my posts to Facebook (although I think that’s more of Facebook’s fault) …

… before I was looking for a social media layer as part of Posterous.

I still see no clear path to revenue for this service, and the lesson I’ve learned here is to not rely so heavily on posterous– no matter how cool and well thought out it was.

My plan is to slowly unwind the SEO I’ve done pointing to posterous, and probably move my photo blog slowly over time to primarily use tumblr, or perhaps a self hosted wordpress– which posterous saved me the time of setting up.

Verdict: Jumped (leaped over) the shark.