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Tom Matrullo commenting on Dave Winer quote regarding the use of blogging by professionals . Physicians, engineers, etc., will use blogware for work. So their stuff has to be in a form that can be easily re-captured in word processors, email, or other formats, because it will be re-cycled for publishing, lawsuits, work projects, etc. I.e., it needs to be free of the ware that makes it so tempting to blog. Zwiki's use of Structured Text (which approximates plaintext) as its native input format makes it very friendly for just dumping out it out into whatever document container you want. Or you can build renderers to accomodate future formats.