You are standardizing on HTTP and HTML Indeed. That's an excellent point. If HTTP and HTML didn't exist, we would be compelled to invent them... as we were fif

You are standardizing on HTTP and HTML Indeed. That's an excellent point. If HTTP and HTML didn't exist, we would be compelled to invent them... as we were fifteen years ago when we did invent them. However, HTTP and HTML do exist. And all these other tools are already built on that common platform. So exactly what are we trying to further standardize? What remaining problem are we trying to solve? Because the remaining technical barriers to publishing the same text on (e.g.) Twitter, Flickr, and Blogger are very few: A bit of login hassle (ameliorated by persistent cookies), a bit of copying and pasting. You can automate even more of these keypresses away [1], but I suspect that such efforts are approaching the point of diminishing returns. Because the ultimate bottleneck to publishing the same content on multiple platforms isn't really the time required to paste it. It's the time required to recraft the content to fit each different medium, and the (far longer) time which you must spend living in each medium's community before you learn the difference between what is locally appropriate and what is painfully tone-deaf. --- [1] See, e.g., http://www.janrain.com/ http://www.janrain.com/.