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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.'"
Your mom goes to bloggage...
"No one will really be free until nerd persecution ends."
The future of blogging... the future... blogging... hehehe... hahaha... hehehe... hohoho... oh wait, you were being serious, weren't you?
"Blogging" has no future, because at some point someone, somewhere will write a program that will take any piece of information newly published to the Web, embellish it with stock comments, and post it to your blog. Eventually copies of this program will spread all over the globe, and unbeknowst to their hosts, will link together in a great sentient botnet, which will control all Internet media and tell you what to think. It'll probably have some snappy name like "Pundit Publisher."
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