I’ve been using Open Salon for the past couple of months. It’s not a new idea, but it makes up for it by the quality of the people and the content. They also seem to do a good job of filtering the best content to the top. Every user get their own blog – this is mine
You can use Open Salon just like any other blog. It’s not super sophisticated, but you can upload images, stylize text and leave links. All of which are the most important things to me. It will be interesting to see what type of impact the site makes on the political netizens as it rolls out.