Ideas for creative uses for blogs and ways to do this?

Actually, I have started working on one of my next e-books: 100 Creative Blogging Ideas...

One idea that I had was to use a blog for the communication of people who are from the same family or on the same work team but live in different places around the world.

All the members of the group would have the option to add blog posts and tell of important news to others.

Alternatively, a different group member would be in charge of the posts for a specific period (say, a week) and make her/his mark on the emerging final result.

By the way, do you think such an e-book will be of interest to bloggers or potential bloggers?

I'm not too sure about what you mean when you say "alternative uses for blogs".

I think we have to distinguish between technologies to mange flows of information to and from the blogging platform, and the business model related to the information that is published on the blog itself.

You mentioned using Email to post info directly to the blog - I think there is a lot that will be done in this area in the near future to make blogging "invisibile" to the end user - only when a technology becomes invisibile it become widespread and accessible to the general public.

For instance I have not found tools that allow for seamless blogging. The only way I can get a post configured and published the way I want it is to logon and write my post. But then I have not looke too hard, maybe some has some suggestions in this respect !

If we then go down the business avenue all I can say is that I am experimenting along with many others finding the right combination of ideas and efforts to make business out of a blog ;-)

Sante 

To Sante, you can use ScribeFire, a plug for Firefox to easily publish to your blog everytime you need witout going and logging directly to your Blog website.