If you were able to have your dream blogging program, what would it look like? What features would it have. Which features on Dailykos make it exceptional? Which ones could use help?
What does the future of blogging look like?
I'm working on designing a program, almost from scratch, and I'd like to know what your ideas are. When you build a program from scratch, you have to prioritize what gets done first. Which features would be highest priority in your system, poll creation or ability to recommend diaries?
Which features are absolutely essential? Which are the icing on the cake?
Are there features of social networking software (myspace, friendster) that would be desirable or offensive, useful or annoying on blogging software?
Would demographic information about bloggers and poll takers be of interest? Would YOU be willing to provide demographic information like age, sex, locale, education, etc.?
Which blog sites have unique or special features that should be ubiquitous?
In 5, 10, 20 years, how will blogging advance? What new innovations will become the standard?
Rob Kall
publisher, OpEdNews.com, a hybrid news, op-ed site that will have blogging on it in a few weeks. The interesting thing is, we've had a number of bloggers, posting using primitive software, and we were rejected by technorati as being mainstream media. We are moving to a new level, where we will have a continuum of content-- comments, diaries, inside page articles and front page articles. It will be possible to promote diaries to inside page articles or front page articles. The articles are spidered by google news. We're one of only 4500 sites which are included in that spidering process. Imagine the ultimate continuum-- starting with an email, phone call or thread comment, upgraded to a diary, then to an article, then to a mention on local radio or TV, then promoted to being featured on national TV. Actually, this process is already, to some extent, happening, with CNN and other Net specialists picking out the content from multiple websites. At OpEdNews, I think we may be one of the first to actually do promotion of diaries to article status. We're looking forward to seeing how this "experiment" works.