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# Microsoft does weblogging (and how to cut weblog posts)
- URL: https://werd.io/microsoft-does-weblogging-and-how-to-cut-weblog-posts/
- Published: 2004-12-02T14:57:54.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:39.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

Via a ton of other places (not least [MetaFilter](http://metafilter.com/) and [Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/)) comes the news that Microsoft have broken into the weblogging market with [MSN Spaces](http://spaces.msn.com/).

{{cut}}According to the front page, the only feature that breaks out of the very standard weblogging format is the ability to upload pictures straight from a camera phone. I suspect, given how freely available other, better tools are, that this will end up being used as a photoblog if anything at all. But it's interesting to see them try their hand at what has previously been a largely grassroots web movement.

Nokia, of course, also have [Lifeblog](http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,54630,00.html), a piece of software that keeps track of multimedia objects you've collected on your branded mobile phone and will allow you to [publish them to the web via Six Apart's Typepad software](http://www.sixapart.com/press/nokia%5Fand%5Fsix%5Fapart%5Fannounce%5Fmobile.shtml). It seems that mobile phones are big news in blogging.

But the big question is - at least as far as systems like Elgg are concerned - can this sort of technology have a place in education or the workplace?

Meanwhile, some of you will be wondering how I split the text of this post up. Insert "\[\[cut\]\]" into the body of your post (replacing the angle brackets \[\[\]\] with curly brackets {{}}), and the system will do the rest.