Strangely enough, there is actually some substance to today’s hype in web 2.0 land (microblogging service Posterous). This substance is not in what it offers (try Tumbler or for other, more established microblogging services) but in how it offers it. Creating a blog in Posterous is as simple as sending an email to post@posterous.com. Your message will automatically appear on http://somenamethatlookslikeyouremailaddres.posterous.com. The subject line of your message will be the title.
That’s it.
To really make it work well, however, you’ll want to register at the site. This allows you to set a decent sub domain name (the automatically generated ones are less than fantastic – mine was http://matthijs_auiyk.posterous.com/ , for example) but, even better, it also allows you to receive replies to your blog posts in your mail. If you reply to these, the results will automatically turn into new blog posts. This way you can have a conversation online using a tool you’re already using anyway (your email program).
An idea so simple it is, even though I personally have no need for a service like this, genius.