Blog user interfaces

[dougo]

Steve Yegge posts longish essays about various things to his blog, usually relating to his job at Google working on next-generation JavaScript stuff. His latest post was about why his posts are longish, which I didn't actually find all that interesting, but it referred to his first post, from March 15, 2006, about all the things he wishes blog UIs had but don't. Surprisingly, many of the things he missed then still don't seem to exist now: inline comments, revision history, per-post configuration. What's up with that? I guess he's not the typical blog poster; most blog posts are too short to need inline comments, and don't get revised enough to need history tools, although I still see (and make) one-paragraph posts that have "Edited to add" appendages. But you'd think that the technology would have advanced more over the last two years than it has. Maybe everyone's too busy blogging to write code.