Battles are something that we are looking at doing. Basically it would be like a poll but you could pit content against each other. E.g. Which music video do you think is better - and you can post two music videos from youtube. We are still figuring out how it would work, but that's the concept.

I'm sorry... but the entire concept of music anywhere on personal profiles is stupid.
I'm sure most of us have iTunes or whatever else open and we're listening to our own music. The chances are, I do not care for the music you do... so again I reinerate, stupid idea.

In what way do you think it's lacking?

Thanks, good point. it's an early sketch, one of the things that's probably gonna change a lot is the icons and the tabs.

The process of uploading a picture, video, or other content is extremely intimidating to new users (and many users that have been on the site for a while). The majority of people don't know BB Code, how to embed content from other sites, how to upload pictures, etc. What we are hoping to do is make it easier for those people, and make the process a lot quicker for current users. The current way of imputing information into the blogs will still remain, we want to maintain our users ability to do what they want with blogs, but we also want to open up blogs to other users. I'm curious as to what you don't find simple about this? The thought was that we would make it straight forward so people would know exactly how to create different types of content. Did we miss the mark on that somehow?

A second issue is that it is not that easy to add different types of content to the blogs, for instance polls. If we want to add those, and possibly others, we have to look at whether that is going to work with the current blog setup, or if we need to do something else.

In regard to your concern about plus, we don't know what we are going to do for pictures, whether they will end up in files, galleries, etc. We are looking at options. We are also looking at some ideas for new plus features, keep your eyes tuned to this blog we are going to post some ideas here to see what people think.

Sounds good, lol. Thank-you.

Last quick question: Again, I know this is only in thoughts now but will the way blogs are posted change? As it stands currently when you want to post a new blog it sends you to a new page. If this idea is put into effect will blogs turn into a pop-up box, like how the profile sections are to edit?

We're looking into something that would let you quickly grab something you like and post it in you're blog.