As I was browsing over the many public messages on other users' profiles, an idea hit me if whether it'd be possible for forum maintainers to design a blog feature for users.
I don't mean your typical blog interface, with its own customization tools or RSS feeds (could you imagine server supporting all that for 100,000+ users?!) or whatnot, but something similar to the simple designs of recent microblogs (i.e. Twitter), with a limited number of characters - to ballpark, maybe around 500 words - per entry.
Can it be done? Too ambitious? What are your thoughts?
Oh and to clarify what I meant by a "simple interface" for posting blog entries, I mean something like we're already using when posting messages on our friends' profile pages. Does this make any sense?