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Posterous launches autopost-to-Xanga!

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:38:10 GMT

Hey friends. I haven't posted in a while, but that's because I've been hard at work at a new startup that me and Sachin Agarwal have launched this summer. We were selected for YCombinator's Summer 2008 funding round and have just been having a great time in Somerville, MA working on Posterous.

Posterous is the dead-simple easy way to blog using email. Send an email to post@posterous.com, attach photos, documents and anything else, and we reply instantly with your new blog address at posterous.com.

Today marks our 1 month anniversary of our launch. If you're reading this and haven't tried Posterous yet, please try it. You don't even have to stop using xanga -- we autopost to Xanga whenever you post to us. And we make it waaayy easier to post photos, files, video, and links.

http://posterous.com

Thanks guys!

-Garry

Mike Loebs

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:18:32 GMT

San Francisco, Apr 13 2008

Mind is playin tricks on me

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:32:08 GMT

Outtake from a fashion shoot I did today for Hoodstar Magazine. I might be in LA in a week or two photographing the Grammy-nominated rapper The Game for the cover of Hoodstar! I am so psyched.

Amazing speech by Bill Gates

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:42:10 GMT

Excerpt:

Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country. Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever. One disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year - none of them in the United States.

We were shocked. We had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them. But it did not. For under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just weren't being delivered.

If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."

So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it. We asked: "How could the world let these children die?"

The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidise it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.

But you and I have both.

http://blog.jhong.org/2007/06/good-speech-by-bill-gates.html

Nutmeg

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:37:23 GMT

The Sting of Poverty

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:34:32 GMT

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/30/the_sting_of_poverty/?page=full

Great article. Though provoking.

Super Inspiring Video about Creativity, Taste, and Perseverance

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:19:37 GMT

Ira Glass, producer of NPR's This American Life

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:56:49 GMT

More experimentation with classic beauty lighting...

Monday, March 24, 2008

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:56:51 GMT

Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

to fly

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:15:08 GMT