[pibaker]

> It doesn't seem very hard to implement in your own site

Depends on how technically sophisticated the author is. Many of the blogs I was thinking about were not written by people familiar with web stuffs. They are hosted on managed hosting services like wordpress.com and blogspot, or on hosting providers with streamlined services that require no technical skills to use. Setting up this tool may very well be beyond what the authors are comfortable with or capable of.

[pipeline_peak]

Assuming you consider services like Wordpress and blogspot outside of the small web, people advocating that domain refuse to acknowledge why those services are successful to begin with.

If being part of the small web requires technical expertise, it will always be limited to tech minded people who also happen to cook and play guitar.