This is really an interesting "behind the scenes" perspective on the origin of Xanga:

"This was john's idea for xanga back in 1998 but I was crazy for blogs"

That's Biz Stone, known as Genius on xanga, linking from his current blog, www.bizstone.com. to junklog.com which is self-described as " ...a site for logging and rating what you've read, watched, listened to and played."

Biz Stone, aka Genius, of course, was the original "Creative Director" of Xanga who then moved on to Google's Blogger and has now moved on to Odeo, Inc. 

So what's Biz saying?

He's suggesting that Xanga as a blogging community is the result of his passion and NOT John's (current Xanga CEO) more junklog-like predilection. 

If it wasn't for Biz, Xanga would be junk, too.  So boasts Biz.