everybody was kung-foo writing

Rumors swirl around who will mainstream the next killer, sticky app. ala blogs.
My opinion is that combined with effective spam filtering on the email side, this is a very valuable service. Who ever rolls this out on a massive scale with a feature rich, friendly interface will have a winner.

I could see the service providing page presence, and local creation of entries.
Server side storage of the page content, would make sure you could edit/change and submit stories from a browser.

Local storage of content is great until you need to get at something and your computer's in another office, or at home. My lazyweb suggestion for a blog entry recovery history above was for a viewable history of drafts. I still think the number one issue should be, what system will survive a crash on the user's machine? Be it OS, hardware or a simple failure of the page interface. Drives are getting cheaper, access points to the internet multiply, and depending on one machine is a weak link.

In a related vein, over the Christmas holidays I checked my yahoo mailbox and found close to 18 spams sent in a two week period, this was unusual, in that these weren't filtered. I took the time to flag them as spam. I just hope to see less out there eventually. The bulk folder accumulates pretty fast, these slipped through somehow. My point is that the filters are working up to a point, but require this user input to continue to be effective. A service for the general public must be friendly. Loosing valuable data isn't.