这意味着与现在相比，交流更加即时，并且他们可以看到相互的的回答和问题，并且更易于管理和方便交流。

This would mean the family would be far more up to date than they are currently and their responses and queries would be spread out (and inline), far more manageable and more current.

为了方便交流，保证工作量，他们做出一个网志程序（web-log），运作方式就如现在公司使用的内部网。

To communicate and maintain their workload, they wrote a Web-log program and used it in the same way that companies now use an intranet.