I have recently decided that my Posterous blog – georgegsmithjr.posterous.com – and this blog are my Id and my Ego, respectively.  All it takes is really one look at the content on each to come to that conclusion.  Let’s take a look:

My Posterous blog reveals that I probably have more in common with teenage girls than I’d care to admit…

My Posterous blog is full of pictures of Hollywood starlets, fashion articles, YouTube videos and random bits of humor – those base, instinctual drives that probably power most of my online consumption.  After all, Posterous caters to that “one-click” and you’re done posting that makes it so simple to share whatever shiny thing catches my eye.  While my Posterous blog reveals that I probably have more in common with teenage girls than I’d care to admit, it also illustrates my personality more in full – as the lack of editorial constraints opens up the postings to a wider variety of interests than this blog does.

This blog is simply the ego – a depiction of things how I would like others to perceive it.  I write mostly about work and illustrate my passion for the social web.  On here, I rationalize my love of fashion and design with articulate, well-thought out (hopefully) musings on those subject, when appropriate.  The subject matters aren’t that diverse on this blog – as my tag cloud clearly illustrates.  Instead, they are mostly related to what I do for a living, where I live, or the occasional review of a song or two.  There is no tag for Fashion – which drives a lot of my content on Posterous.  While I have used this blog to spark larger, more developed thoughts – it’s obviously victim of a personal filter that my Posterous blog is not.

And that’s a good thing.

Many people have written about Posterous and how it could change blogging – Steve Rubel’s post comes to mind.  What I’m realizing is that it’s helping me develop a fuller personality on the web by allowing me to share a larger subset of my interests.  I’m not using Posterous as a full blogging platform, nor do I ever really expect to.  In the end, it doesn’t seem to have the allure that a full-fledged blogging platform like wordpress holds for me.  I never feel like I can type more than one paragraph and, while I know some people do, it just doesn’t have that same feeling for me.  Posterous is simply what whim I am on at the current moment, which is why it will always be more active that this site.  I don’t think Posterous will effect my blog out put at all.  In fact, the social web real estate that I actually see it invading is more along the lines of my Google Reader, Friendfeed, and Twitter conversations.  It will be interesting to see where it goes, but I like that I have discovered the Id and Ego of my blogging life.