My point was to be able to publish readable "blog posts" on sites like HN and reddit without an actual blog. I'd love to hear feedback on whether it might be useful, and if not, what might make it so.
You can also do this by emailing anything (e.g. text, pictures, YouTube link, gist URL, etc) from any email address to post@posterous.com. Of course, future emails to the same address are tied to the same blog, so if anonymity is your goal (including no association to a previous anonymous post), that option wouldn't work.
Nice clean look & feel though. It looks almost exactly the same as what my Readability bookmarklet turn out.
Posterous does the hard stuff while this eliminates the hard stuff. There's a subtle (and interesting difference).
Posterous makes all sorts of decisions for you giving you a good default, eliminating and deferring choices. Here is no hard stuff to do for you. Simple vs easy.
I think this way has a much lower overhead and I wouldn't be surprised is link-less posts make use of this.
Being able to send an email and get the URL back without having a full blog set up like posterous would be awesome. It really could become an anonymous blog.
Keep it as simple as possible. If you do implement any features make them as near invisible to people who aren't interested as possible. eg markup rules on a link somewhere else, 'tiny more options text toggle,' etc.
