Paul Kedrosky thinks structured blogging will flop.
Having played around with the alpha version several months ago, I have to say I disagree with Paul and I agree with the comments of Tony and Pete.
At least two things point to success:
- Ajax-ifying the form means it can be just one form with radio buttons to switch between the type of content
- The explosion of plug-ins for platforms like Moveable Type and WordPress proves that there are a lot of geeky, widget-type things that bloggers want to add to their toolkit.
If certain format types take off—book reviews and movie reviews being the most obvious examples, but also specialized formats like bibliographies—Google and other search engines will salivate over the ease of delivering more relevant results.