Here is a post comparing blogs with frontpage.
On the other hand, Chris Anderson (one of the smartest guys inside Microsoft, although I love how the smartest guys play the dumbest) is asking "why is [weblogging] catching on? Why should we care?"
Then he goes on to compare weblogging to FrontPage and other Microsoft products.
In 1996 Microsoft named me one of the top five users of FrontPage. How is it different? Let me count the ways.
1) Weblogs let me publish fast.
2) Weblogs report to weblogs.com, so Google (and others) learn that I've updated.
3) Weblogs publish an RSS/XML file, so that folks who want to use a news aggregator can read me.
4) Weblogs are easier to use. I type, I click on "post to weblog." FrontPage requires much much more knowledge to get a similar site built.
What's the big deal? I think Chris gets it a whole lot more than he's letting onto.
If the FrontPage team wants some consulting, you know where to find me.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]
