MyBlogLog is launching this new Communities service to empower authors and readers to operate at the same level. For the first time, everyone who reads a web site or blog can learn about and engage with one another, and in the process take the conversation to a whole new level.
Unsurprisingly, MyBlogLog is long since dead, as the Big Tech consolidation continues to force you into their narrow FakeOverton window.
The first comment to that post made what turned out to be a very prescient point:
I find such services contribute to the degradation of good discourse.
It reminds of IM and the horor that those message boards and Yahoo lists used to be in the "bad old days" of the Internet.
Blogging has helped make discussions more "professional", because it puts the blog author in charge (e.g., comment control, etc.).
