Janet (Xanga coder) has created a nice interactive tool to customize the Comment Page.

Last night I got a Japanese blog:  notforprophet Spaces.  Actually, take a look - it's Microsoft's Spaces, the beta of the blog engine it is about to release to the English-speaking world, too (probably this week).

Although I don't read Japanese at all, it only took me a few minutes to figure out how to join and construct a post.  I guess that all blogging tools are written in Blogese!

So I was wrong: Microsoft didn't buy Xanga to compete with Google's Blogger.  whew.

godzilla-big players with new blogging tools = the first TV blogging commercial??