Digital Share-cropping is a term that has been on my mind a lot lately. Digital sharecropping is the exact equivalent of it's land-based agrarian counterpart. You give the means of production to the many while holding complete ownership over what's produced.

Facebook has emerged as the perfect example of that :

Fear Among Facebook Developers - Forbes.com

Their site says the following : Journler is a daily notebook and entry based information manager. Scholars, teachers, students, professors, scientists, thinkers, the business minded and writers of every persuasion use it on a daily basis to connect the written word with the media most important to them.

I checked this product out as an alternative for multi-blogging, unfortunately, it comes short. Yet, I am keeping it as an excellent tool for book, monograph and proposal writing.