Well, it seems AOL has started setting loose the blogs on its millions of subscribers. I think it will be interesting to see what people think. Yesterday I found Jeff Jarvis’ beta blog which led me to create my own heavily branded space to play with. Couple things are pretty cool, though. I like the way the comments just expand down from the post when you click on the link. And you can post by sending an IM. But as Jeff says in one post, they’re going to need to allow for more personalization if they want to make this work. (Interesting that Jeff’s also experimenting with TypePad…much nicer don’t you think?)
Just as an aside, turns out Jeff is just up the road from me in Bernards, NJ, and he points to a Web log being kept about a local community nearby. Seems I can’t look at stuff like that any more without getting ideas for student run or community run Web logs that go beyond what the local scribes can produce. So many idea, so little time…
UPDATE: I love this…just sent a post via IM and got this response:
AOLJournals: OK, I added this entry to your journal “Braindumpings”. You can always edit this entry to add a subject, description of music you’re listening to, or mood. To add to this entry, just send me another message now.
I feel so, um, attended to…
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