1.	Here's what I see at the beginning of 2003.
2.	We've reached a milestone in our journey of technology to the Two-Way-Web. All the basic ingredients are in place. The back-end systems are maturing, with lots of choice for users. The XML-RPC interfaces are also maturing and (more important) standardizing.
3.	We went a lot further with the ManilaRPC interface, and the Edit This Page button, the key innovation in Manila, still hasn't appeared in other mass-market CMSes -- but I have no doubt the interfaces will deepen, and the convenience for users will increase, and the content systems will do more of the work.
4.	Another innovation waiting in the wings -- OPML directories. It's the next step after blogrolls.
5.	The wizzy editing tools are coming from all corners, all platforms, mobile and desktop, you name it, someone is working on wiring it up to the content network defined by the MetaWeblog API.
6.	Further, we have settled the outage in RSS, again with choice. People who like RDF are able to use that, at a cost in confusion, but that was factored in already. We got the features and extensibility we wanted in RSS 2.0. If there's any more work to do there it's just clarification or cleanup.
7.	In summary, the interfaces will deepen, the tools will keep coming, the back-ends will support the tools. Aggregators will be able to depend on more data in the RSS feeds.
8.	The next challenge is spreading the gospel. There we have just begun.