Ok. So today, I finally found it.  What I was looking for awhile ago.  Someone posts an entry on their blog and thanks to simple syndication I recieve a notice in my aggregator of choice.  I read the entry and I am struck with the desire to leave a comment.  So I do.

Now normally, I need to remember which entry I made a comment on. So I have to go back to that page and find my comment(s) and see if there were any new comments made. Sometimes I'm lucky and the blog supports the CommentAPI and I can read it right their in my aggregator.  Ok, but still I have to wade around in my feed items and hope I can remember what the title of the entry was.  So it is better, but not perfect.

Now Too-daaay, Today I found something it is a lot better. I felt like leaving a comment on the Story of Feedster Blog and I noticed a little subscribe checkbox.  I clicked it.

1 hour and 15 minutes later DeWayne leaves a comment on the same entry and I got an email!  how great is that?

Maybe this is something that exists on other blogs and I've just missed it, but this is great.  With this little addition you could leave a comment on a blog entry and know if the author (or someone else) responds to you.  It seems too simple to be a new idea.  I suppose there's an issue of having an email server to dish out the emails.  But really you think this would be more prevalent.

I know some people don't want emails.  But why not give them the choice? Enhance commmmuuunication Flow.

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Ok I suddenly feel like an 8-year old who just stepped into the blog-o-sphere.  Everyone's looking at me like I'm an idiot or a complete newb[1].

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[1]How funny is it, that the #1 ranking for "newb" on Google is http://www.newb.ie/index.shtml?