BloggerCon:

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

A vision for the next generation of blogging tools?

This is a question for non-technical bloggers. (That is people who use blogging tools, not those who develop them.)

Premise: We've reached a plateau in blogging tools. There haven't been a lot of changes in the last two or three of years. The growth continues, lots more weblogs, and we've got better tools for reading (aggregators).

Question: What's next in writing tools for weblogs? If you could influence people who are making the tools, what feature or features would you want? Think as big as you like, or as detailed as you like. What bug is most in your way. Ramble, please. Is there one thing you'd kill for? Or perhaps you're satisfied with the tools as they are. I hope your comments are on the record so I can assemble a quote sheet as the beginning of a conversation that I hope will yield better tools for all of us.

This is part of my background work for the next BloggerCon, scheduled for April 17.

Postscript: Lisa Wiliams summarized the comments on this post.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 2/24/04; 8:16:20 AM - --