"This hasn't been said often or emphatically enough, so I'll boldface it: Blogs are outlines, and blogging is a form of outlining. This occurred to me during the panel on weblogs at Supernova on Tuesday.

I was writing in an outliner, and I was doing it fast [~] about as fast as it can be done. And I'm not saying that because I'm vain about my typing. I'm saying it because I was using a tool that greatly speeds the process: an outliner. Radio Userland's, to be precise.

In the Weblog session, Dave said "Weblogs are the word processors of the Web" ...

One of the cool things about an outliner like Radio's is the way it lets you organize what you say by processes like promote/demote, collpase/expand and hoist/dehoist. I won't explain them here, but I will tell you they are very handy once you get to know them. They even help me organize what I'm thinking and writing about, which is saying a lot.

In fact, I just used outlining features to quickly reorganize my blog/outline after moving (actually copying) all of my Day 1 reporting over to its own "story page", where it should have been in the first place. [Later... I just added Day 2]" [The Doc Searls Weblog]

...and of course it took only a few hours for Doc's great conference blogging to appear in my Radio News Aggregator.

(Note: St. Luke's seems like a fascinating creative company, but their current corporate site, and their BT broadband campaign, are clueless.)

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