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I had a similar idea with Urgeous: http://urgeous.com/

It lets one blog by email, without the necessity of prior login ("no login necessary... or possible").

It's not generating much interest but the one consistent advice I got was that people would like to personalize the experience (register their own handle instead of having their posts listed under a number).

So I'm working on this feature now.

Good luck to you anyway!

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That's pretty cool too! I had a less similar idea into which your Urgeous was a to-do feature (and never done...) My idea was WikiBlog (http://wikiblog.jugglethis.net) and was essentially an (optionally) anonymous blogging platform with posts (optionally) left unlocked and editable by others, like a wiki, and hence the name.

It never took off, but I do think there's merit to all these ideas. I always figured the biggest benefit of my concept was what Quora's blogs have just provided - instant audience. Rather than needing to write for months/years without anyone reading, you tag things with topics and people interested in those get your posts in their feed. That is a huge win in my book.

Urgeous seems better thought out. It makes clever use of an interface that most are already familiar with, has a better visual design, and it doesn't put DISQUS ads on your content. I'd rather use this or GitHub Gist.

I sent a test email, nothing happened. I think your idea/site needs explanation. I cannot tell what your site provides.

Normally Urgeous responds with the url of your post. If you still haven't received anything in the next few minutes you can email support@urgeous.com with the same email account and we'll look into it!

Thanks for testing.

Also thanks for the info that it's not clear what the service does; I'll add a simple description.

You should keep it simple: blog via email, or something like that. I also agree that people would want their own username in the URL and the URL itself needs to be descriptive. Unless you're building a throw-away type of blogging system where people can blog anonymously, I think it makes sense to give users the ability to have easy-to-read blog setup.

Okay I see what you're doing. Cool idea. Perhaps you can take over old Posterous users.

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