A tale of one man and his blog: The Guardian UK covers the Blogger Pro rollout, interviewing Evan Williams. The interview goes in an interesting direction here:

“What we haven’t done much of, and what I think is desperately needed in the blogging world, are more tools on the browsing side. We have a tremendous amount of content flowing through our system, all in these little chunks that are separate from their sites. It should be easy to index and aggregate and present to people in all kinds of different ways.”

The dangers of this, of course, are obvious: web-hosting companies have quickly run into trouble in the past when they’ve attempted to seize the rights to re-use their customers’ content. And Williams is quick to agree that users would not condone him publishing their work. What he is interested in is tackling the largely unconnected network of weblogs, introducing network publishing to make it easier for the reader to get to things that might be of interest.

Bears further discussion.