Six Apart has an entirely new blogging platform in the works, slated to be unveiled in 2006 — Project Comet aims to simplify the process of blog creation and bring blogging into the mainstream. Project Comet integrates rich media as well as text, allowing you to bring in streams of various media (photos, music, voice, video) reportedly by drag and drop — something I'm dying to see. Combining the power of TypePad with the community aspect of LiveJournal, Project Comet also includes fine-grained permissions controls over public objects — the press release doesn't detail the specifics of this, but it seems to include privacy controls for at least family and friends. My curiosity is piqued by the community aggregation feature, which brings together the latest posts from your near and distant family to create a "shared experience that can transcend location and time." The gist of the tool sounds like it's incredibly easy to syndicate and aggregate content from multiple sources — something which is possible in blog tools now, but cumbersome. An increase in the remixability factor of blog software is a step in the right direction — and Project Comet sure sounds an awful lot like a DLA.

[Via Memeorandum]