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July 7, 2003
AOL SHOWS OFF BLOGGING TOOL
Another sign that Blogs are catching on... from an industry e-mail message I received earlier today:
America Online got good reviews after a show-and-tell for some of the pioneers in publishing Web-based diaries, known in the industry as blogging. AOL's tools for users appear to be pretty good, according to Jeff Jarvis, one of those invited to the off-the-record session in New York. He commented on the meeting, he said, because someone on the AOL team has already blogged about the plans. AOL is expected to release its blog technology later this year.
Jarvis said the most impressive feature of the AOL blog tools is that users will be able to update online pages using the company's instant messenger technology. "That elicited many oohs from the room," he wrote in his report of the meeting at Buzzmachine.com.
According to Jarvis, the product would be called AOL Journals, positioning it for community building and discourse rather than as a quick-and-dirty Web publishing system. Jarvis said he fully expects that "everyone will have a Weblog because everyone ... will store or share their stuff (online) ... opinions or pictures or school assignments or shopping lists or church calendars."
Earlier this week I noticed that About.com migrated their entire site -- more than 450 distinct websites -- over to a Blog platform. And just this weekend, The New York Times ran yet another article on the popularity and utility of Blogs in the workplace.
Posted by Mikal at July 7, 2003 12:00 PM
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I know blogs have been around since at least 1998, but it's good to know that you, Mikal, remain in the forefront of technology and trends. Kudos to you!
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