AOL gets blogging

Jeff Jarvis reports on a sneak preview of AOL’s upcoming weblogging entrant, saying “They’ve done a good job.”
Jeff was invited along with Meg Hourihan, Nick Denton, Anil Dash, and Clay Shirky to preview the service, called AOL Journals. Discussing the meeting from the AOL perspective, an AOL employee named Kevin writes in his blog,

AOL Journals is different. No one thinks of blogging as a new “space” to conquer. Most of the people involved in the project realize that AOL


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    Radio Free Blogistan: AOL gets blogging

    Christian Crumlish points to this article by Jeff Jarvis on AOL’s AolJournal,  their entry into the Blogosphere: AOL gets blogging Jeff Jarvis reports on a sneak preview of AOL’s upcoming weblogging entrant, saying “They’ve done a good job.” He no…

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    On AOL’s weblogging project…

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    AOL gets blogging

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