Reading these comments and reading a response I saw to this question on Twitter, I was reminded of Six Apart's Vox, a site that enables community and blogging and groups that blog on a group blog. This is somewhat close to what this future is -- community blogging, but then isn't this also a bit of what the past was with platforms like livejournal? How distinctly different will the future be now that we've seen the proliferation of medaiblogging - plurk, pownce, kwippy, identi.ca, twitter, et. al. -- and then sites like facebook and friendfeed and plaxo that enable parking all of your social activity in one spot to sort of present a lifestream -- the real question is what is the next phase of all of this? How will it happen? What's the next big move? It's more than putting a mybloglog widget on your blog and building community in that way. It's more than simply installing disqus enabled threaded comments on your blog and having those comments become part of a larger web discussion. I know it's more than these things, or perhaps even simply the integration of all these things. But what does that thing, or those things, look ?