He notes that the decisions AOL makes about how to implement weblogging will be critical to the future path of the medium. Jeff Jarvis has more details about how the product currently looks, but the reaction of a team of seasoned webloggers who were allowed a sneak peak was that it “doesn’t suck”.
Shirky suggests in passing that the kind of interconnection between people’s weblogs that software like LiveJournal encourages makes LJ more popular but also more insular. There might be something to that – if because of the tools available you are more aware of your audience of close contacts you may write more for them and less for the wider public…
Anyway, AOL Journal is due to “ship” in the fall.
