In reply to Rick (@Fungible) Castello.

I think most people have this view. It's what blogging was supposed to be, but Facebook was able to pull it off because you have a central jumping off point. It's a bit of a walled garden in that respect, or can be.

Blogs are a loosely coupled version of this tied together via RSS and blog rolls.

I've had a weblog since 2001 so Facebook isn't nearly as attractive to me. On the other hand, the "normal" folks could care less about a weblog or the power it affords. They just want to post about how drunk they are and share pictures of their cats, all in one controlled UI.

Smart. :-)