Posterous is a simple blogging platform started in May 2008, funded by Y Combinator. It is based in San Francisco and was acquired by Twitter on March 12, 2012

Updating to Posterous is similar to other blogging platforms. Posting can be done by logging in to the website's rich text editor, but it is particularly designed for mobile blogging. Mobile methods include sending an email, with attachments of photos, MP3s, documents, and video (both links and files). Many social media pundits consider Posterous to be the leading free application for lifestreaming. The platform received wide attention when leading social media expert Steve Rubel declared he was moving his blogging activity entirely to Posterous.

Posterous also has its own URL shortening service, which as of March 2010 can post to Twitter.

Posterous allows users to point the DNS listing for a domain name or subdomain they already own to their Posterous account, allowing them to have a site hosted by Posterous that uses their own domain name.

Nick Tosches (born 1949) (pronounced ˈtɑːʃəs) is an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet of Albanian and Italian descent.

After different odd-jobs, Tosches started writing with poetry and rock-'n'-roll magazines, including Creem, Fusion, and Rolling Stone.

Tosches' second book, a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis named Hellfire was published in 1982. Subsequent biographies have covered the lives of Dean Martin, Michele Sindona, Sonny Liston, Emmett Miller, and Arnold Rothstein.

Tosches has also published a collection of poetry, and three novels. He has been published in Vanity Fair, Esquire and Open City. The Nick Tosches Reader collects writings from over the course of his career.

Tosches was featured on the popular Travel Channel show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations in the episode "Disappearing Manhattan". He and Bourdain shared a drink at Sophie's in the East Village, a Manhattan dive bar, and they discussed the changing nature of the city.