11.
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A simple way to
simultaneously send new blog articles, as they are posted, to any
number of user-maintained, editable e-mail lists (from which people
could easily unsubscribe, of course).
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10.
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An
automatically maintained Table of Contents with one-sentence abstracts
for each of your blog posts, editable by you and sortable by your
readers by title, date, and category/sub-category.
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9.
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A
simple, meaningful measure of total readership, that weighs blog hits,
visits, average duration of stay, RSS subscriptions, inbound blogs,
e-mail subscriptions, and visits to copies of your posts on aggregators.
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8.
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An
ability to create standing-order 'profiles' for all blogs, as you now
can for newsfeeds, so that you can receive a single daily e-mail or web
page that aggregates everything posted that day, anywhere in the
blogosphere, on a specific topic or containing specific keywords or
phrases.
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7.
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A
gigabyte or two of free storage on the hosted blog server, so you can
keep a copy of your entire My Documents folder on the server, link to
anything in it from your blog without having to FTP a copy, and be able
to access your entire 'e-filing cabinet' from any computer anywhere anytime.
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6.
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An
easy migration path from the asynchronous, polished
anonymity of the blog to the real-time, one-to-one, face-to-face or
voice-to-voice, halting interactive iterative intimacy of other media, media
that
move you from talk to action.
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5.
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Inclusion of our posts, if we want them to be, in Google News.
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4.
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More
first-person accounts, first-hand news, live photos and reports, and investigative reporting in
the blogosphere. |
3.
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A
blogging tool so simple even our parents can maintain one. |
2.
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No
more fear of your blog or your computer crashing and irretrievably losing everything
you've written on your blog. |
1.
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The
end of the terms 'weblog', 'blog' and 'blogger', and to be simply called An
Online Journalist. |
12:06:28 PM 
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