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I have been eyeing iWeb along with the rest of the known universe. It looks really cool. Unfortunately, on its face, it is missing a very key part of the blogging experience - interactivity. If it allows you to post flatfiles up to your .mac site (or anywhere else), generating RSS feeds on the fly, that gets you about 50 % of the way with blogging.
The other 50% is allowing your users to post comments and have those show up right away. Those comments can be turned into a feed themselves, again on the fly. That’s what makes blogging so powerful - everyone gets instant gratification.
So, everyone who uses Wordpress knows this. But people that use .mac may not. Both are cool products….so why not combine them?
Could you generate a series of iWeb pages, which are gorgeous, and turn them into Wordpress 2.0 templates, which would pull posts, comments, and the like from the database back-end?
Better yet, Apple could just integrate Wordpress functionality right into its .Mac service, so .Mac becomes a true blog host. C’mon Apple, why are you waiting so long to transform this part of computing? It’s not like I haven’t posted on this before….
I’m personally waiting to buy iWeb/iLife until I decide whether to buy a new machine or not, since it’s pre-installed. Why pay $80 bucks now, if I get it free when I pay a few thousand? 
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