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The Future of the Blog
conq writes "BusinessWeek has an interesting interview with Six Apart, the company behind LiveJournal and Movable Type, about the future of blogging and the role of the blogger. From the article: 'I think blog tools can get easier to use. Putting together a blog should be as easy as sending an e-mail. I foresee the next versions of blog tools as focusing less on features that appeal to early adopters. They'll be easier for people to incorporate more media and maybe mobile capabilities. This will be important, because many more mainstream users will come to blogging. I believe the interest in blogging is just starting.'"
This is implemented on ourdoings.com already. You can keep your own private site that you tell nobody about, have another to share with friends, and another for the general public. Once you publish on one, you just "edit" and check boxes to publish it on the others as appropriate. There are many uses for this. For example, I put a lot of family activities on my family blog. If any of them is something I want to share with my alumni class I just check a box.