Posts are atoms, says Anil..

Metaphor hell...

Atoms come in various shapes and weights and have varied components. For a periodic table of elements: The Component Blog.

Microcontent in many forms.

Molecules are atoms combined. Their properties vary with their elements, organization, and how everything is glued together.

Think of this as a subset of a weblog. Maybe a channel, or posts with inferred mutual relevance.

Throw enough atoms or molecules together, and you get complex things. Organisms, crystals, buildings.

Newsreaders, journals, blogs, photoblogs, wikiblogs, email clients, calendars, collaborative blogs, vending machine blogs.

That's why the not-Echo project must provide a framework for:

1. A rapidly growing Periodic Table of Elements [not just the RSS .92 post structure],
2. Attributes and protocols that permit more kinds of interconnection among various forms of microcontent, and
3. A basis for creating new systems and structures from the many microntent flavors and structures.

This is the path to the Adaptive Blogosphere.