EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest post by Sean Platt of Writer Dad who is sharing the first hints of our future collaborative online venture.

One thing most often missing in discussion about web 2.0, is exactly what it is that the two is supposed to include. It isn’t just audio, video, or any of the million other things that make the modern web a more immersive experience. It is also that we have witnessed a mammoth migration in the thought process of the common blogger.

It’s easy to lose sight, blogging is a medium still in diapers, and we can only hypothesize its direction. When blogs first started, not too long ago, they were little more than online diaries; an instant conduit from living room to world at large. As the term Problogger, began to envy the weight of the word entrepreneur, our preconceptions were first relaxed, then redefined.

Modern blogs are constantly showing us that anything is possible. This infinite possibility quite easily leading us toward limitless confusion. Searching for a single source to hold our hand through the dim days of our beginning, or those middling months of running in place, can feel like we’re driving an endless lane in an unlit midnight.

Everyone offers advice, but few deliver the map.

Eric and I have been in daily collaboration since first we met; two cooks in the kitchen, preparing a future online potluck.

Two chefs with the same recipe, renders one of them useless. Eric and I each insert something fresh into our formula. We are both of us brimming with ideas about how best to chart a course for newbies as well as those who need help steering their experience.

We have felt the excitement of a rapid rise measured against the lull of realistic expectations, and both have plenty to say.

We’ve elected to stream our collective experience into Up and Coming Blogger. As this year falls into the next, Up and Coming Blogger will blossom into something brighter. Think of our upcoming direction as a blueprint to brighter blogging, or perhaps that hand to hold as you trudge down the ever widening boulevards of a booming Blogopolis.

EDITOR’S NOTE: We will continue to post once or twice a week on Up-And-Coming-Blogger as we have thus far, but come January, we will have a new baby that will be BIGGER, BETTER and, well, you’ll just have to wait and see.