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The dynamics of blog commenting, or lack thereof...

The newly added CommentRSS is actually helpful in tracking comments in my SharpReader.

It doesn't appear to be the final solution though.  I still have to track back through the entries in a feed and then remember which one I posted a comment to.  Then I can expand the nodes and see if anyone has made any comments to my comment.

So it appears that at this point Blogging communication is two-way for the blogger and one and a half way for the blog commentor.  We can “talk” (by adding comments) but we can't “hear” (find out the rest of the conversation that is embedded in the comment realm of each entry).

I know some people have been asking for tools to help with blogging, so this is my request.  A better Commenting/Conversation paradigm.

Maybe I should walk over to Scoble's Future of RSS thread and give a suggestion, but then if someone responded to it, how would I know (easily).  This might explain why more people are commenting by adding links to their blog.

Any ideas?  Maybe some projects I don't know about already in the works?

Posted: Nov 25 2003, 11:47 AM by AdamKinney | with 5 comment(s)
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Scott Mitchell said:

I wrote a bit about this in an earlier post of mine:

Improving the Blog Commenting Experience
http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/255.aspx

However, I focused more on user authentication, single sign-on, and other security-related issues. Too, though, I discuss reply notification and threaded views of messages rather than linear.
# November 25, 2003 12:05 PM

Scott Galloway said:

If only .NET Alerts were ubiquitous, it really seems like the ideal solution (transient notification, doesn't fill up your email inbox etc...)- just a pity that .NET Passports sucks so badly that no-one wants to use it...I had a few ideas about this though, just using email as the notification vector with the email address as the user key and a URL sent with each notification allowing 'unsubscription'. The future has to be a comments system built straight into the RSS reader - or even just integrating NNTP which would pretty much fill the criteria for such a system.
# November 25, 2003 12:09 PM

Julien CHEYSSIAL said:

MyBlogroll.com, my web based RSS aggregator supports this feature (check the apparition of new comments for a specified post). I'll publish a new beta version in approximatively two or three weeks.
# November 25, 2003 1:57 PM

Adam Kinney said:

Scott Mitchell:
Yeah that's true, I should have remembered that since I added a few comments in there, in response.

Scott Galloway:
Yeah its true, if only the old proposed "My Services/Halistorm" were to have been successful or maybe turned open source some how, we could actually have a better online experience. I think the email could be used as the unique for an individual, I also have heard some about what Longhorn is doing with Identity, should be interesting to see what comes out of there.

Julien CHEYSSIAL:
I'll check it out and tell you what I think. I've been looking for a online aggregator better than Bloglines.com
# November 26, 2003 10:02 AM

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