Federated Blog

A Federated Blog is new type of blogging software. It'a hosted, edited, administrated, and operated in a part-distributed way by users. It has asynchronous and (and one day) real-time text editing, a distributed conflict management system, like the ability to fork, branch and merge blog pages and so on.

Creating a federated blog is as easy as creating a new email account. Just choose a blog website/federated blog provider you like, create an account and start using it. Another option is be a provider yourself; just install the software and run it on a server. To that degree, federated blogs are still centralized. The key to understanding how federated blogs work is that, page changes can be pushed or pulled cross-blogosphere. All blogs involved in the federation share changes to pages.

Federated blogs only exist in concept as this point. But are conceptually similar to Federated Wiki(s), Distributed Social Networks like, Diaspora and other real and purposed distributed web services.

Blog Coop

A blogging cooperative is a group of bloggers who pool resources to collectively own a blog to their benefit. They share the duties of hosting, editing, administrating and operation. Cooperative blogs share the surface features of newspaper columns; they have multiple authors featured on the same site. Blog Coops take things further, what if columnists owned the paper?

Reality Sandwich is a close example. It isn't directly cooperatively owned, but does have peer funding aspects.