Posterous, the New Blog On The Block

Google has long been the king of simplicity in web design appliances. Its search engine and online apps are clean, functional, with no extraneous "bit and pieces." Well, there is a new blog platform that brings simplicity to new heights, posterous.com. This blog is designed to use email as the posting engine of choice for blogs, and has the most elegant sign-up process ever — just email your first post and you're signed up! Check out my new web design blog on posterous.com

In addition to this brilliantly simple sign-up process, they keep it simple with interface design. The blog itself is the model of simplicity, with excellent use of white space and refined font usage. The effect is that you forget about the design and focus on the content. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a major player in the blogosphere!