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The lightweight content management systems known as weblogs or blogs have enjoyed a massive popularity explosion in the past few years, more or less becoming a distinct literary form. But although the blog has proven itself technically capable of meeting the need for many kinds of information dissemination and archiving, numerous social and legal problems have emerged in the practice of real-world blogging. Many of these problems cluster around the almost totally public nature of online expression. Paradoxically, we may be reaching a point where greater expression can only be achieved through greater privacy. Online privacy is ultimately a matter of law; but the law develops within an understanding of specific technical capabilities. Software implementors can, should, and increasingly do design towards social-engineering goals, such as the ability to withstand legal challenge. Design from high-level needs is particularly relevant in the case of blogware, where a large percentage of users are not themselves admins or developers and therefore usability is a primary concern -- perhaps the primary concern. The combination of sophisticated social goal and need for usability means that the state of the law must be baked into blogware tools themselves – a daunting challenge for any development team. Another major area for improvement in weblog software is integration with other communications apps: other people's blogs, bulletin boards, Wikis, chat, IM, email, PIMs, external websites, and RSS aggregators. At the moment users are habituated to monitoring numerous apps – and ceding control over their private and/or copyrighted data to numerous external organizations -- to manage their personal communications, but it should be possible in theory to reduce the number of interfaces. This step would help move the web towards its ultimate goal of facilitating a seamless conversation regardless of the form in which data is presented. Integration of communication apps mig
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