Ahead of BloggerCon II, Nico Macdonald wrote an interesting article for The Register in which he discussed blog journalism and speculated on future developments in the blogosphere. Considering the recent discussions about RSS catgegorization, blog-to-blog conversations, and using DMOZ, this struck me:

We also need to find ways to categorise posts ? to bring the kind of structure that Yahoo! brought to information on the Web ? and the seeds of this concept can be seen in Moveable Type, NewsMonster and other tools. We also need to find ways of assigning priority to posts based on who wrote them (an approach often referred to as reputation management) and where they were posted. Source.