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Sarah, thanks for the mention!

Posterous.com just got a mention on Current TV!

Current TV is an Emmy award winning independent media outlet led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. They do some pretty interesting stuff with user generated content broadcast on cable and satellite. Very innovative stuff, guys. Thanks for the segment.

Current TV can be seen in the United States on DIRECTV 366, Comcast Nationwide 107, Dish Network 196, Time Warner Nationwide, and AT&T U-verse 189, and seen in the UK/Ireland on Sky 229, Virgin Media 155.

The new kid on the block is Posterous, which made its debut last week and is already making Tumblr seem archaic by bypassing the need to go to a Web site to write a post—or even embed a video. On Posterous, users start an account and publish new posts entirely via e-mail. All you need to do to launch a new blog—and update it—is send an e-mail to post@posterous.com. In its first week 6,000 bloggers registered with Posterous, according to cofounder Sachin Agarwal.

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We're excited about the prominent mention in mainstream media and we welcome you to Posterous if you're coming to us for the first time from Newsweek.

Don't be confused, though-- we're pretty different from Twitter and other "microblog" platforms. We want to be the place where you share EVERYTHING (photos, music, video, and files of all types), not just 140 characters of text. If you know how to use email, you now know how to post things online. It's a simple concept that we think will make a big difference in a world of confusing web forms.

Posterous. It's not a microblog, or a tumblog. It's an everythingblog.

The Highlights

Posterous' setup process takes minimalism to the extreme - you don't even have to register... Registration is dead simple as well - just enter your email address and a password.

The ease of posting to it is going to make it very attractive to even novice users.

Posterous would also work very well for those who want to send quick updates from their mobile devices. There is, after all, no need to install any apps - simply send an email and be done.

...posterous might just be different and simple enough to set itself apart from the rest.

We couldn't really say it better ourselves. Thanks ReadWrite for the great writeup. We heartily welcome new users who are coming from this article, and encourage you to email us at help@posterous.com if there's anything we can help you with.

Read the full article here.

Barry Ritholtz is one of the foremost thinkers about the economy in the blogosphere with his blog The Big Picture. Today, he posted about his new posterous and how simple/useful it is.

It is absurdly simply to use, and I already see how it is going to impact how I work. I typically gather a few links, stories, photos each day. Most of the time, they get saved for later, as the time sensitive data and news stories get priority. So I end up with links, email, articles at home, in the office, on the laptop.

This makes it easy to gather all of the items I may want to post or save for posterity. 

The whole package is very, very clever.

Barry, thanks for the stamp of approval and for the promo on one of the most insightful blogs on the Internet today.

We're glad to be of service.

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Our favorite highlights:

...it's even easier to use than Tumblr, which has a cult-following of users who like to post lots of pictures and short messages.

...Posterous is dead simple to use and does the mobile blogging thing very well...
 

Michael Arrington also issued a challenge to give a Techcrunch t-shirt to the first person to spoof his blog at http://techcrunch.posterous.com. Several thousand spoof emails later, we had a lucky winner who exploited a small hole in the way we handle confirmed email addresses that you haven't emailed from yet. (The winner Dave Donohue spoofed mail from Arrington's gmail account, which he hadn't posted from yet. Congrats, Dave.) This hole has been fixed, and rest assured your security is a the top of our concerns.

To the thousand or so new users we have picked up in the past few hours, thanks for trying Posterous. Expect good things to come over the next few months, and we hope you'll stay awhile!

PS, Dave is planning to live blog from the Modest Mouse concert tomorrow!