Dan Gillmor on Manila Powerful easy group Web publishing, in your Web browser. Home Pricing Press Release HowTos Dan Gillmor on Manila Dan Gillmor is a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, and runs a Manila website .
Manila is interesting for several reasons.
Most important, it's designed for people who want to create Web content entirely on the Web. That is, I'll be able to update my weblog from any browser on any computer. The ability to use the Web as a writing tool, not just a publishing platform, is a fairly big deal, I think. It changes my thinking about the very nature of creating content, not just because of the freedom it implies. The idea of writing on the Web, for the Web, is a dramatic shift from what has come before.