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You should do what you're passionate about. The rest is housekeeping.

That's a good point but it doesn't change that the overall dynamic of the Act would be to put way too much power in the hands of investors. I hope you're right and that's how it wi…

Yes, so I've seen. My take is basically this: they're experimenting, and you have to give them kudos for that, and since this is a web startup they can work out the kinks as they r…

That was hilarious. I'll keep it in mind.

Great points. I'll incorporate them into the post. It's growing faster from a smaller base, though. I find more relevant that Tumblr is still much, much bigger. And I think it will…

They don't contradict my thesis since Tumblr was always much bigger than Posterous and while they may have had faster growth it was never enough to catch up. Again -- I may be prov…

Thanks for the comment. If you have actual traffic stats I'd love to see them. ;) Also, the estimate isn't for "a couple months", but for the past 12 months, and the trend points i…

You're right -- obviously this isn't a post mortem or anything. The trends could reverse, and Posterous could become wildly profitable with less users while Tumblr has plenty of tr…

Thanks for the kind advice. For me, blogging is a conversational medium, I try to write blog posts the way I would speak, and so it's pretty unfiltered. Also I try to be engaging. …

Actually, it shows the past 12 months.

Thanks. The Company A vs Company B thing is just (to my mind) a particularly stark example of these broader points I try to make.

The signup pages are an example of a broader mindset which is different at Tumblr and at Posterous and which in turn, to me, exemplifies broader trends for startups. That's what I …

Thanks. Duly noted. The Compete data seems to show Posterous stagnating just shy of 1M uniques for the past few months while Tumblr's curve is stuck "up and to the right," though.