Ernst mentioned Posterous in a tweet recently, and I spent some time checking it out yesterday.
Basically, Posterous is a super simple blogging tool that never requires you to sign up or learn your way around a back end.
You activate your account and post your first post all at once, simply by sending an email to post@posterous.com.
The system creates an account for you, gives you a URL based on your name and makes your email subject field the title and the body text the post itself. It then sends you a confirmation link.
You can log in and edit your profile, posts and settings if you want to, but it is entirely up to you.
If you attach images to your email they are displayed in the post, and if there is more than one image Posterous places them in a neat little gallery. If you attach mp3s they are playable from the post in a nice looking player. Links to Youtube or Vimeo files in your email wil result in embedded videos and Posterous also collects your attachments in zip files for download. Quite simply genious, and very elegant.
On top of this one Posterous account can be set up to recognise different email adresses, fascilitating email based group blogging.
I’m super happy with WordPress, but I recommend Posterous to anyone looking for a simple, feature rich and easy-to-use blogging tool.
As far as I can tell Posterous is built using Ruby on Rails (a detail mostly meant for the guys at Re: who freakin LOVE RoR)
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