I laughed at Posterous, but they proved me wrong

If you just write text and post pictures, email is great.

In Clayton Christensen's book The Innovator's Dilemma, he discusses two types of disruptive innovations:

1) Low-end disruptions

These serve less demanding customers with low-priced, relatively straightforward offerings using low-cost business models. Look for markets with over-served customers and offer a simpler product or service.

2) New-market disruptions

These serve new customers by making it easier for them to do something that previously required being or hiring specialists. Look for unfulfilled needs and create new products or services for them.

Posterous is a great example of a low-end disruption. They're offering a product so damn simple that few realized it would have such an impact (like Dustin Curtis). And now they've got features that early adopters and perhaps some early majority want as well (the rich-text editor). Pretty shrewd of them.

Sounds more like twitter/facebook updates. Believe there is a higher quality bar for blog posts.

> I would worry about post formatting, title of the post, my potential readers etc.

That's what I do and more (multiple drafts) when writing most blog posts. I expect bloggers I read regularly to at least attempt the same.

Addresses some of those issues.

>> Email can easily be spoofed, but Posterous has come up with some ways to figure out if the email we receive comes from you. If we think it might not be you, we ask you to confirm the email before we post it.

No matter what, you always get an email notification of every post we put online for your blog, with an easy link to remove the post if you didn't do it.

They wouldn't necessarily even have to get you to click on a link. There have been numerous attacks against image processing libraries.

Maybe Smear Campaign artists might take to it. Or spammers...

What did you welcome email say?

  ATTENTION: We noticed you're sending this from a different
  computer or location, so it won't get posted until we're 
  sure it's you. Please confirm that you sent this.

Another blogging interface that makes sense to me is a message board. Each blogger would have a forum (subforums would be allowed and would represent all of that blogger's blogs). Each thread (the first post of the thread) in the forum represents a blog post, and others' replies to the thread become the blog comments.

I think that idea might have some legs, as it could help a lot with discoverability. But what do I know?

But, it seems to be wrapping around as the "new hot tech" again because this generation of users has forgotten about it.

Just don't make the mistake I did: forget to set up your imap server to use TLS as well.

What I was more imagining is where if you are in some cube-hell and your boss walked by and saw you on some website typing away, it is easily recognizable. But if you had Outlook up, typing away, it isn't near as noticeable.

One of those office work things, sort of like how old video games had a Boss key.

I've seen enough people doing slack-off stuff like this.

can anyone confirm/deny this? I've thought of using something like that for other ideas and wonder if it works, and if so at what volume you need etc.