I have been writing The differential biology reader using Posterous. Posterous is easy. You email your text to post@posterous.com. I am using the site to write and to think about my adopted field.
An example of Posterous's markup. Those br's are horrific.
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Nice, easy, managed. Posterous’s interface is OK but I always have to go in and tinker with the markup it generates to get what I want, and it still gets it wrong. I think their system is designed to digest whatever HTML your email client will throw at them. The site also lacks any kind of way to organize your writing.
So I tinker some more and scratch an itch, extend the work I have already done on this website to capture what I’m trying to do with The reader.
I am caught between ease and control.
