Interesting. I think this is the start of offline and online becomming very blurred. Everything will be online and we'll only need a browser to access.
Ewan McIntosh spoke about this at SETT. He said he found it quite a burden to try and think of something to say and post it on his blog every day. Especially when he started out. My on/off blogging spurts are probably evidence of this too.
Also, Google Reader does make things a bit like having a constantly full mail box.