By "publishing to the web" I mean an easy and automated way to show the world what you have accomplished, so for instance if you are getting hired, one can look

By "publishing to the web" I mean an easy and automated way to show the world what you have accomplished, so for instance if you are getting hired, one can look at your page and have a feeling of your work process, what you care about, what you have accomplished, what kind of experiments have you done... I agree that micro notes are the way to start this, but give the users ways to be able to extend these notes in oder to be able to further document their work or whatever they have accomplished.