Bloggings’ killer app

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Kiruba pointed me to Kevin Lynch’s (Chief Software Architect, Macromedia) brainstorming site, where they are discussing how Macromedia could make their products more blog-aware.

When I first heard of this, I thought, “Hey, cool! Now I just need to ‘file/save to blog’ from Dreamweaver!”. Then it’s struck me. It’s easier to just shoot an email off to my blog. Doh! I don’t think any of the current MM desktop products can be extended to incorporate day-to-day blogging. Here’s why: blogging requires immediacy. When I want to blog, I want as little as possible between my thought and post. I don’t want formatting, images, no nothing. I just want to type, correct and hit send. This workflow pretty much rules out starting any new app. The user is likely to go with one of the apps they definitely run when they’re online: browser, email or chat client. Definitely not Dreamweaver.

The killer desktop tool that would revolutionize blogging would be a blogversation tool built like a chat app. You would see a list of your favorite blogs, with any new entries in comment threads you want to follow. Maybe one of them is interesting enough that you right click and “Reply to this on my blog”. This app would give you news, allow you to comment, either within the blog, or on your own blog. It would reduce the turnaround time on already lively blogversations. Pile on a newsreader, and every blogger who has anything interesting to say has a shot at being Slashdot.

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