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November 08, 2003

The Shape of Blogging's Future

Dave writes:

Weblog software is going to be like mail servers. Lots of ways to deploy, every niche filled. For the masses, services like Yahoo, MSN and AOL. Blogging servers for corporations, inside and outside of the firewall. For schools, for the military, specialized systems for lawyers, librarians, professors, reporters, magazines, daily newspapers. The next President will have a blog. Writing for the Web, the prevailing form of publishing in the early 21st Century, will come in many sizes and shapes, flavors and styles. It won't be one-size-fits-all. Open formats and protocols will make this possible. I'd bet on the formats and protocols we're using now, RSS 2.0, OPML and the Blogger API.

Sounds right to me. (Well, the next president will have a blog but won't write it himself. [I'd say "or herself," but who are we kidding.]) Also, I don't know if Dave agrees that what we do with these blogging servers may not look all that much like blogging.

Posted by D. Weinberger at November 8, 2003 08:51 AM

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Thanks for the link. I do agree that what's done with blogging servers may not be in any reasonable sense of the word, a blog.

Not like we haven't been here before. Is spam email? Technically yes. But would it have fit any definition of email we might have drafted in 1985 or so? Not too likely.

Posted by: Dave Winer | November 8, 2003 09:25 AM

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