with all the hullaballoo surrounding typepad, all i can think about is whether or not it save foaf from geek backwater marginalization:

“Movable Type have just announced a new hosted blogging tool – it’s
going to produce FOAF automatically for every user, and detect the link
rel to the FOAF file of anyone who you put in your blogroll…I saw it
on Monday, it’s very very very sweet. So, I guess the FOAF world is
about to get very much bigger…”