and Posterous are the two most prominent “tumblogging” sites, i.e. sites that make blogging more straightforward by making it easier to post media. Both were launched within six months.

Posterous, a blogging service acquired by Twitter last year, is shutting down at the end of April. When Twitter acquired Posterous, the information-sharing network made it clear that it was buying ...

This is very useful if you consider that blogging platforms like Posterous or Tumblr accept post via email in Markdown format. In this way, MarkdownMail has become some sort of a blogging app, too.