Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The World Wide Blog : Interview with Joichi Ito (17 Aug 2004) Weblogs are, from a technological perspective, just content management systems that use a bunch of the technologies and standards that have been developed in the community - things such as style sheets and syndication formats, the ability to import and export entries between software packages, and the existence of a common API that allows you to write a client for all the different blog packages. It's really what the Internet is all about, and what the big companies are NOT all about. Article URL: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i25_ito.html Read 316 more articles from Ubiquity sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: A Haiku Kind of Guy: Q&A with Guy Kawasaki     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy