yonmei

yonmei @ 10:11 am: I'd hope that sometime soon, they install a blog on their own website, crosspost to all the journal sites and put the comments *on their site* with OpenID logins.

Well, it would be simplest of all to do that - you can use blogger or wordpress. (They could do it now, in fact, because you can export journal posts to wordpress blogs.)

But I can also understand if they want to hold off on that a while, since they plan on doing a journal thing of some sort.

That could be. It seems to be their reasoning on their project in general: hold off actually doing stuff that people could get involved in (a wiki, a blog, an archive) because you're trying to do something perfect.