We’re obviously interested in what makes a successful blog here at SMITH, so we ate up Time.com’s Amber Cartwright’s interview with new Gizmodo chief Brian Lam. Lam says that the power and brilliance of blogs are about, “the promise of constant conversational updates. I think the best blogs cover the kinds of things that traditional media don’t think are important enough to cover.”

True that. And true this (and thanks Mr. Lam):

What social or technical features would you like to see enter the world of blogging?
I’d really like to see it become as easy as talking to a group of people…I would like it to be more fluid. There is this web comic called Shooting War; it got picked up in the Village Voice and it’s this really cool web comic about blogging in 2011 in Iraq. The war is still going on and the blogger does everything by video because it’s easier than typing. The fact of it is that the web comic shows the future of blogging as being more flowing, more conversational.