numanga is right: TheTheologiansCafe is the loudest voice on the block outing Xanga's social networking beta.

At this point, I think Xanga should say something about the SN beta.  Keeping it quasi-private (that is, without any official PR) is probably going to rub some people who don't chance upon it (one way or another) or chance upon it the wrong way, the wrong way.

The emails announcing invitations are becoming annoying.  Xanga has an opt-out for it, but I also think they may be re-thinking email notifications for invitations altogether.

My thought is that having more SN features on Xanga may diminish true blogging activity as some people will more naturally embrace those features to express themselves.  But that's fine with me because those who will blog less and network more are probably almost all crappy, boring bloggers to start with.

Goodbye, crappy bloggers.  Go Nudge yourselves.