The perfect weblog system - more co-construction.

Ever since I read How Users Matter, I see it’s influence everywhere - in the co-construction of users and technology. In other words, technology doesn’t happen because of some kind of technological inevitability (an assumption geeky people like me tend to have), but users and non-users both influence the development of technology.

A simple example is The perfect weblog system this blogging wishlist.

Another example is an email conversation I’ve been having with a responsive company the past 2 weeks. As a result, they’ll be offering some pretty cool videoblogging features in September. Real users really matter.

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